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Dear Collectors

***THIS WEEKS FEATURED ITEM***

1892

ZAR PAUL KRUGER

  PROOF COIN SET

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 PREMIUM SET FOR THE SERIOUS COLLECTOR

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL COINS ARE SOUGHT AFTER WORLDWIDE  

ONLY 10 SUCH GRADED SETS KNOWN,

 MOST ARE IN LONG TERM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AND ARE UNLIKELY TO BE OFFERED

  THE POND, HALF POND AND THE FIVE SHILLING WERE STRUCK WITH THE DOUBLE SHAFT DIES IN THIS SET. 

Gold was discovered in the Johannesburg area in 1886. President Paul Kruger took the opportunity to start the first mint in South Africa, realizing that the ZAR needed its own currency. In order to increase Paul Krugers popularity in the upcoming elections of the time, he wanted to issue new coins. Paul Kruger could not wait for the Pretoria Mint to be completed.  So in haste he contracted the 1892 ZAR coins to be struck at the German Mint in Berlin. The specimen coins were struck with polished dies, from polished blanks. The pond, half pond and the five shilling were struck with the double shaft dies. The implication was that the dies were designed with the European design of a wagon, which had a double shaft, as opposed to the typical Voortrekker wagon which had a single shaft for spanning oxen on either side, and the rear wheels were larger than the front .  The erroneous representation almost cost Paul Kruger the elections and he withdrew the issue,  replacing them with the single shaft coins.

There are no known records of how many proof coins were produced, quantities usually listed are based on availability, general trade and various authors estimates over a number of years. 

''OOM PAUL''Press. THE Z A R STATE MINT AND BANK - OFFICIALY OPENED ON THE 6TH JULY 1892

This is one of the oldest working coin presses in the world with a manufacturing date of 1891. President Paul Kruger, then the President of the old ZAR (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) ordered two presses from Ludw. Loew & Co. in Berlin, to be used at the first South African Mint and Bank established on Church Square, Pretoria.

 Press currently housed at the SA Mint

The coins in this set have all been graded by NGC Numismatic Guarantee Corporation based in the U S A and is internationally recognised by collectors, investors and dealers worldwide. 

The Image above is copyrighted to Randburg Coin only.

The Gold One Pond (11 Slabbed) and Penny RB Red Brown (10Slabbed) are the key and most elusive coins required to complete a 1892 Z A R PAUL KRUGER PROOF COIN SET. There is also a further 11 BN brown and 2 RD red variety pennies that have been slabbed.

The Gold Half Pond (14) slabbed, is also an extremely rare coin to find, and especially in this high grade (PF64).

The silver set is mostly PF 63 with one PF 64 one PF 62 and is in the upper end of graded sets available.

The complete 1892 ZAR PAUL KRUGER PROOF COIN SET as listed is NOW AVAILABLE at 

 R4,250,000