New Gold Coin from South Africa

The South African Mint has struck a new gold coin from South African

In the Protea series of 24 carat gold coins features Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

As per the South African Mint.

“THE great achievements of SA should be honored, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said before striking a gold coin commemorating his Nobel peace price at the SA Mint, in Midrand, today.

"We ought to be celebrating some of our great national achievements. We are too prone as South African to sell ourselves short," Tutu said.

"We have so much to be proud of. We ought to be a country that can show the world how to be compassionate."

He struck a gold coin bearing his image, and which forms part of the SA Mint’s Protea series honouring SA’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. The launch series is to feature 300 coins.

Former ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli was featured in the series last year.”

"The archbishop is a very, very special person both from a religious and spiritual view, also as a councillor, peacemaker and (for) playing an important role in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission," Mboweni said.

The new 2006 Protea gold coin series set consists of three coins, the one troy ounce gold coin, a one tenth of an ounce gold coin and a one Rand sterling silver coin. All are available from the South African mint.

They depict Tutu and an excerpt of the speech he gave shortly after receiving his Nobel Prize in 1994.