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South African Mint - Big 5


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@robinvonbrex I contacted the South Africa Mint and their reply was

"Hi Mark,

The mint only issued coins with 2 ears. Early marketing images were made available to our dealers prior to production which had the single (flat) ear but were never produced. We have made the correct images available to our dealers prior to launch but it seems as if some of them have not updated their marketing collateral.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention we will contact our dealers again to avoid any confusion."

There was an advert in one of the local Gazettes regarding the upcoming "Big five releases" This also showed the plan for the "One ear" version, but more interestingly it also showed the plan for the final release of the Buffalo. A nice series to own. Take a look at page 10 of https://archive.opengazettes.org.za/archive/ZA/2019/government-gazette-ZA-vol-645-no-42327-dated-2019-03-22.pdf

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Listing photos of the bullion versions of both the silver and platinum coins seemed to show them with a very dull finish but I had assumed this was just an artifact of the photography. However the photos above seem to show that they really do look this way in real life.

Now I realize they're obviously not supposed to have a proof finish, but in my experience most bullion silver and platinum coins actually have an extremely bright polished finish. It seems like the SA Mint has gone out of their way to give these BU coins a spectacularly dull matt finish.

I was planning on buying the platinum bullion Leopard when it became available but I'm crossing this off my wish list now.

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