Fifty Cent, South Africa, 1979, Nickel

Country

South Africa

Year

1979(1965-1990)

Value

50c, 50 cent, Fifty cent

Metal

Nickel Fine

Weight

9.50gm

Diameter

27.85mm

Thickness

2.21mm

Obverse Design

 Lourens de Lange(LDL)

Reverse Design

Tommy Sasseen(TS)

Shape

Round

Last issue of series

1990

Obverse

Portrait of President Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs

Lettering:

SUID-AFRIKA * SOUTH AFRICA

* 1979 *

Reverse

Variety of flowers (Three flowers; From Left to right areAn Arum Lily, An African Lily and the Strelitzia (Strelitzia Reginae) also referred to as the Bird-of-Paradise). All these flowers are instinctive to South Africa.

Lettering:

50

Edge

Smooth

Mintage

Proof Mintage

1965E

/

Between 30 and 50

1965A

27,909

24,988

1966E

8,081,408

25,000

1966A

8,056,408

/

1967E

76,814

25,000

1967A

51,814

/

1968E

750,000

/

1968A

775,000

25,000

1969E

19,968

12,000

1969A

7,968

/

1970

4,107,722

10,000

1971

5,074,399

12,000

1972

781,475

10,000

1973

1,054,298

10,850

1974

1,956,808

15,000

1975

4,906,000

18,000

1976

9,653,329

21,000

1977

10,215,245

19,000

1978

5,088,029

17,000

1979

5,065,622

15,000

1980

4,282,987

15,000

1981

5,711,455

10,000

1982

2,103,721

12,000

1983

5,190,814

14,135

1984

9,723,511

11,250

1985

13,358,696

9,859

1986

2,309,800

7,000

1987

19,077,981

6,781

1988

27,711,032

7,250

1989

17,269,121

9,571

1990

29,442,400

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