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title: "The South African Krugerrand, explained"
source: "https://goldealers.co.uk/videos/krugerrand-explained"
date: "2026-09-26"
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# The South African Krugerrand, explained

The first coin made for people who wanted to own gold rather than collect it, and the format the Maple Leaf, the Eagle and the Britannia all copied. Whose face is on it, why it is twenty-two carat rather than pure, and why it does not get the sovereign's tax treatment here.

## Chapters

- 0:00 — A president and an antelope
- 0:16 — Nineteen sixty-seven
- 0:46 — Kruger, and the rand
- 1:02 — His face on gold, in eighteen ninety-eight
- 1:21 — The springbok
- 1:33 — Pronking
- 1:48 — Why it is red, and why it is heavy
- 2:10 — A half, a quarter and a tenth
- 2:23 — Nineteen eighty-five
- 2:51 — Tax: not the same as a sovereign
- 3:14 — What it started

Runtime 3:37. Watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udnv6h0W5LA

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