1 Cent, South Africa, 1961
date: label: date made
content: 1961
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) cent coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: South Africa, 1961
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Bust of Jan van Riebeeck.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: UNITY IS STRENGTH / EENDRAG MAAK MAG
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Covered wagon.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: SOUTH AFRICA / 1961 / SUID-AFRIKA / 1C.
label: Description
content: South Africa broke its political ties with Great Britain in 1961 and became an independent republic. In the years that followed, it changed the design of its coins to replace the portrait of Queen Elizabeth with a portrait of Jan van Riebeeck. Van Riebeeck was an official of the Dutch East India Company and the first commander of the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-1600s. For Afrikaner South Africans, Van Riebeeck represented the historical origins of a white-led state. The coins were minted at a time when apartheid political ideology dominated South African society. Apartheid laws enforced racial segregation and oppressed Africans and other people of color. This coin also depicts a wagon, which was a symbol of the movement of the Great Trek of the 1830s, a period in which the ancestors of European immigrants migrated from the Cape of Good Hope into the South African interior.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place used
content: South Africa
label: place made
content: South Africa: Gauteng, Pretoria
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: South African Currency
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ellis H. Robison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.77.70.1155
label: catalog number
content: 77.70.1155
label: accession number
content: 1977.1138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .17 cm x 3.08 cm; 1/16 in x 1 7/32 in