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  • 10 Cents 1965-1969, KM# 68.1, South Africa
  • 10 Cents 1965-1969, KM# 68.1, South Africa
Description

Engraver: Tommy Sasseen

Obverse

Depicts a portrait of Jan van Riebeeck with the state name in English at right.

Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (1619–1677) was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator who founded Cape Town in what then became the Dutch Cape Colony of the Dutch East India Company.

SOUTH AFRICA 1969
T.S.

Reverse

Aloe plant with denomination at the top.

Aloe, also written Aloë, is a genus containing over 500 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe", so called because, though probably extinct in the wild, it is cultivated as the standard source of so-called "aloe vera" for assorted pharmaceutical purposes.

The genus is native to tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, Jordan, the Arabian Peninsula, and various islands in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius, Réunion, Comoros, etc.).

10
T.S.

Edge

10 Cents

SOUTH AFRICA
KM# 68.1 Schön# 89
Characteristics
Material Nickel
Weight 4 g
Diameter 20.7 mm
Thickness 1.7 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Alt # Hern# D120, Hern# D122, Hern# D124, Hern# D128
Mint
Pretoria Mint, South Africa (SA)

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