With the sale of the rare Mandela R5 MS-69 for R2.5 million the birthday Mandela coins have taken the title from the rare Mandela R5 2000 proof coins as being the fastest appreciating rare coins in the entire history of the world. This will not negatively affect the growth of the other rare R5 Mandela coins. In fact it will act as a catalyst to make all of the rare R5 Mandela coins appreciate at even faster rates that then had before. Each and every single time that there is a record breaking sale of a rare R5 Mandela coin it lifts the market for all of the other interrelated coins. It is just staggering to consider that a R5 coin that could be obtained for the price of R5 could be sold two years after its minting for the unbelievable price of R2.5 million rand! This is the only investment that we have ever heard of anywhere in the world that has appreciated in value by 49.9 million percent in just two years. A blistering aggregate performance over the past two years of 24.9 million percent! If you are able to locate an investment that was made available to the general public that has shown even remotely the growth that the rare Mandela R5 coins have let us know.

Nelson Mandela giving an interview at his house in Qunu on his 90th birthday.

The type of growth that the rare Mandela R5 coins has shown to investors and collectors over the past 5 years has been both unbelievable and extraordinary. What is it that has made these humble R5 coins such unique investment items that that they have outstripped the hottest stocks on the world stock exchanges. That they have made seem paltry the highest returns from the most sought after real estate anywhere on this earth. That they have consistently outperformed every single investment arena that has been made available to world investors over the past 5 years. Amazingly we all know the reply to the question that is raised, it is due to one single person, Nelson Mandela. The very power of Mandela is reflected from all of the coins that bear his face or that are associated to him. The man that healed a country that was on the brink of a civil war. The Man that took the hate that was felt by white to black and visa versa and took it away. The man that could convince Fifa to let South Africa and Africa host the world cup for the first time ever is what makes these coins extraordinary. These rare R5 coins are one of the most powerful legacies that Nelson Mandela has left for generation after generation of South African to use for their financial benefit. All of the rare R5 Mandela coins create wealth for everyone and everything that they come into contact with.

The rare Mandela R5 coins have made the South African Mint larger profits than any other series of coins that they have ever produced. The rare Mandela R5 coins have made more money for the coin dealers that any other coins that they have ever bought and sold. And most importantly the rare Mandela R5 coins have made larger profits than any other coins ever in the world for the investors and collectors that have bought them. The Mandela rare R5 coins in effect increase the nett worth of all of the South African's and international investors and collectors that come into contact with them. These are blessed coins that bring good fortune and luck to all of those that hold them. These coins are a prism reflecting all of the good deeds that this special man Nelson Mandela has done for our country and in fact for the peoples of the whole world. For some investors and collectors the rare Mandela R5 coins have even made them millionaires!

Nelson Mandela at the Hyde Park 46664 concert in London to celebrate his 90th birthday.

To put into perspective for you how unique the rare Mandela R5 coins are consider the fact that when they are compared with other rare coins around the world that it is only the rare Mandela R5 coins that have appreciated by hundreds of thousands of percent per annum in some cases and in others by millions of percent per annum. The rarest rare coins that you could find from anywhere in the world only have their highest performances ever at thousands of percent per annum but never ever hundreds of thousands of percent and not even remotely close to millions of percent per annum. In fact the rates of appreciation of the rare Mandela R5 coins is so great that you have to compare them to all of the global investments in the world to truly gage their performance. In so doing you then realise that not only have the rare Mandela R5 coins managed to outperform all of the rare coins in the world but they have also done the same to all of the other investments that you could buy and that are available in the global investment marketplace. South African's have also been able to benefit by the fact that these investments are also totally tax free on their sale. This has been a double benefit to South Africa investors and collectors, stratospheric financial growth without the payment of any taxes on their sale!

What makes the rare Mandela R5 coins so unique when compared to other rare coins and also to other investments is that their phenomenal growth is driven by a global icon. This is in fact the most powerful selling feature of these coins as investments. An investment that that is precluded from too many variables is in fact 'the perfect investment'! What makes the selection of any investment globally difficult is the pondering that you have to do about the investment. In the regards of a great stock like BP for example a single though massive incident in the Mexican gulf dropped the stock price substantially overnight. Whilst an investment in real estate can be effected negatively by economic conditions like a recession. A prolonged recovery of the global economy is not good news for real estate or the stock market for that matter.

This is where the rare Mandela R5 coins are so powerful and have a unique investment 'set' like none other. Einstein famously said 'that simplicity is genius'. It is the simplicity of the rare R5 Mandela coins that makes them so unique when compared to other investments. Their growth is primarily driven by the icon Nelson Mandela and therefore their growth can only be negatively impacted by the diminishing of Nelson Mandela as an icon. There is simply no possibility of that. So when you take into consideration that the single most powerful market force that drives these coins cannot be altered it is there that the magic of the performance of these coins lies. Beyond that the rare R5 Mandela coins are driven by the numbers of the coins that formulate the marketplace in accordance with the rarity. By this we mean that the coins that are going to exhibit the fastest and highest growth will be the coins that are smallest in number being those coins that are in perfect condition or as near to that as possible.

Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, and his wife Graca Machel, meet the Queen for his 90th birthday celebrations in London.

So what we are seeing is an investment that does not have a multitude of external influences. Global icon + small numbers = high growth. That is the simplicity of the equation that we are looking at. One of the most extraordinary factors that we at S A COIN have seen with the Mandela rare coins is their total resilience and in fact the irrelevance these coins have shown the global recession. The sales of the rare R5 Mandela coins have throughout the recession continued to climb whilst most other investments have struggled. The records for the rare R5 Mandela coins has also continued to be broken with the prices going higher and higher for these coins. It can be said that the rare Mandela R5 coins have effectively been recession proof!

Mandela coin: Former South African President Nelson Mandela stands in front of a picture of a new Rand coin during its launch at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, Monday to celebrate Mandela's 90th birthday.

In all of the years that we have been marketing and selling a variety of rare coins we have never ever seen any rare coin sell with the ease that the rare R5 Mandela coins do. It can be said that the mere mentioning of the Mandela name opens doors and this is the case with the rare R5 coins that are related to this famous man. It does not matter whether you are talking to a South African, American or to an Iranian. When you say we sell rare Mandela coins all of them are all ears to hear what you have to say. That simply cannot be said of any other rare coin series that we have ever marketed to the public at large. So what you see again and again that makes you come to the conclusion that what makes these rare coins so different from all the others is the reverence with which the world regards Nelson Mandela as a global icon. It has been said before and we will say it again behind Jesus Christ and prophet Mohamed that Nelson Mandela is the most widely regarded person that has ever walked our earth.

It is that Nelson Mandela is widely regarded as having the qualities of a saint that everyone is so receptive to him as a person and that they hold his name in such exalted regard. Consider the fact that he is one of the only politicians in the entire world that remains to this day untarnished by corruption. That is virtually unheard of anywhere in the world whether you are discussing American politicians, British or from any other corner of the globe. Due the reverence that Mandela holds to the entire world this has created an enormous market opportunity. People like to have a piece of memorabilia of any person that they respect or hold in high regard. There is simply no other Mandela memorabilia that is available to the global community that is accessible at reasonable prices other than the rare R5 Mandela coins that we are selling.

S A COIN has a 20 year program for the promoting and marketing of the rare R5 Mandela coins all around the world. The primary markets that we are aiming at breaking into are going to be the United States, the EEC and also Australia. At this moment in time the majority of the sales of the rare R5 Mandela coins has been in South Africa. Our domestic market is still rapidly expanding and will remain an important and primary market. But it is only the very tip of the ice berg when you are looking at the potential that the global market has for these coins.

S A Coin's first US advert flighting in the USA on a monthly basis.

S A COIN has always had a reasonable amount of foreign investors and collectors but we want to dramatically increase that. At the beginning of this year we started flighting adverts in the United States and we have had good results and significant sales from the adverts. But we intend to increase dramatically the advertising that we going to do in the overseas markets. The rare Mandela R5 coins are already the fastest appreciating rare coins in the world. Can you imagine what the growth of these coins is going to be when we begin to have a strong amount of marketing overseas.

The simple fact is that almost everyone on this earth loves Nelson Mandela. He is in fact the most marketable person that is on the entire planet. There is that famous adage 'can you sell ice to Eskimos?' But you we can tell you with great certainty that you could sell rare Mandela R5 coins to Eskimos. The market capitalisation of the rare R5 Mandela coins is over one billion rand at the moment. In the future we expect this market to be worth billions of billions of dollars and not rands as is the case at this moment in time.

Nelson Mandela, wife Graca Machel and Geri Halliwell at his Hyde Park concert.

The rare R5 Mandela rare coins have a life of themselves. You can try to influence these rare coins through marketing but they themselves in fact determine where the market goes. They are so powerful and complex there is simply no way to analyse these coins and fully understand why they function the way that they do. That is not to contradict what we said that the factors that influence them are indeed simple. That is true but when you try to work out the external components that influence each coin or the market at general that is where things become very, very complex. These complexities do not paralyse the mind or the thinking processes that are applied to them. Rather they have the opposite affect whereupon they make the mind a visceral kaleidoscope of imaginative opportunities.


The football world celebrates the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, an extraordinary man who has dedicated his life to the promotion of human rights and democracy. FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter salutes "his friend Madiba" with a special birthday video message to pay tribute to this "icon of humanity".

When we at S A COIN started to market the rare R5 Mandela coins 5 years ago. We projected that we would sell 30 - 40 units a month and that they would appreciate at a rate of 25 - 30% per annum. We never ever imagined that we would be selling the rarest specimen of the rare R5 Mandela 2000 proof coins in the grade of PF-69 for what seemed to be the astronomical sum of R100 000 at the end of only one year of selling those coins. Had anyone ever told us that we would sell a rare R5 Mandela coin for that sum of money we would have laughed and not ever believed it. This is where we point out that it is the rare R5 Mandela coins that actually dictate the market and where it is going. We would have also laughed if you have told us that over the next two years that we would sell thousands of rare R5 Mandela coins. In fact we sold in the preceding two years after starting to market these coins more rare coins than we had sold in over two decades of marketing rare coins. It is for these reasons that we say to you that there is something special and extraordinary about these coins. There is no rubric for these coins where you are able to quantify what they do they just do. Once the coins have then determined a specific pathway in the marketplace then we are able to follow on this and continue forward. It is as if the coins talk to us in the way they react to the marketplace.

To illustrate a clear example of this. When we started to market these coins we would have never considered that any of them would ever sell for R100 000 and today we are now certain that the finest specimens of these coins are going to sell for a million dollars in the future and many many millions of dollars in the future! The rare R5 Mandela coins expanded our limited thinking into a world of endless possibilities. A global market in the extent of a billion dollars and record prices shattering previous rare coin records occurring time and time again.

Another clear of example of the way that the rare R5 Mandela coins dictate the marketplace is that conventional wisdom would tell you that the 2000 uncirculated rare R5 Mandela coins would have a greater demand than their rare R5 uncirculated 90th birthday counterparts. In 2000 the South African Mint only minted 1 million of the 2000 R5 Mandela coins and in 2008 they minted 5 million of the R5 birthday Mandela coins. But even though the general public managed to get hold of pristine examples of 90th birthday Mandela R5 coins the demand of these coins in uncirculated condition is the highest out of all of the Mandela R5 coins. They are the most popular coins and that is a market force that you just cannot create. By the same token the rare R5 Mandela coins have show too through extremely powerful market forces that they are set to break record, after record, after record, after record and remain one of the highest performing investments in the world for a very, very, very long time.

S A COIN has done over R100 million rand in turnover over the past 5 years primarily in the sales of the rare R5 Mandela coins. That is something that we could never even entertained as a possibility without these coins! Had you told us 5 years ago that coins as modern as 1994 could be rare and sought after that is also something that we would have also laughed at. We had been accustomed to selling rare South African coins that for the most part were over 100 years old. Yet all of a sudden we had modern rare coins that were outstripping rare coins that had taken decades and decades to appreciate. A really great specimen of the 1892 gold Kruger pond coins sells for over R100 000 today. But in the case of the rare Mandela R5 coins they took just one year after beginning our marketing to cross the R100 000 mark. These coins had reduced their performance time when compared to one of our rarest coins from over 100 years to just a single year! This is just unbelievable!

What all of these various factors means that you have to realise that we in South Africa have had the great luck to find ourselves in the enviable position of having discovered by complete accident the most valuable rare coin resource in the history of the world. Our locating the rare R5 Mandela coins is the equivalent in rare coin terms of locating an oil field that has a trillion barrels of easily accessible crude in the sea without any geographic complications! This means to us as a company and to all the investors and also the collectors that we deal with that we are handling the largest oil find in history. That computes and calculates to simply gargantuan profits that are going to be rendered from these coins year after year after year. It does not matter when you enter this marketplace the greatest profits that will be made in the rare R5 Mandela coins are still to come and lie in the future decades when investors and collectors reap the rewards of being involved in quite simply the most exciting rare coin issue and investments ever manufactured anywhere in the world.

Mr Nelson Mandela (former President of South Africa) and President Thabo Mbeki at the Mandela 90th birthday celebrations held in Qunu in the Eastern Cape.

The very moment that you apply limited thinking to the rare R5 Mandela coins is where you meet your downfall! They are so extraordinary that they defy conventional wisdom and flip it over into endless possibilities that result in the creation of very significant amounts of capital literally in the blink of and eye. If you said to us that you would challenge us to invest R100 000 in any other investment medium and get higher growth than the rare R5 Mandela coins we could not do it! We are exposed to countless investments that we have in commercial real estate, residential real estate, stocks, bonds, money market funds, derivatives, currencies and a host of other investments. To be fair to them a lot of them have made us a lot of money too. But when you get out your calculator and you calculate the profits that they have made relative to the rare R5 coins the returns pale in significance! Don't get us wrong we are not telling you that you should only invest in rare R5 Mandela coins. That would just be stupid. We expect all investors to have a basket off investments which is always prudent.

But what we are saying is that history is in the making here. S A COIN has discovered an investment opportunity like none other. It is the highest appreciating investment that we are aware of in the world. You would just be foolish to turn down an opportunity to participate in the highest growth investment in the world. That would be akin to saying. No, I don't want to make huge profits from an investment with a proven track record and that is tax free to our local investors?

What we are also saying to you as an investor is that this is such a special and unique opportunity that you should make the rare R5 Mandela coins a significant area of investment relative to the investments that you have. These coins are also unique in so far as they are high returning investments without the high risk that usually accompanies such high yielding investments like futures and commodities.

We in South Africa are making history with the rare R5 Mandela coins. Whilst we are not the largest rare coin company in the world Nelson Mandela has allowed our company and all of the investors and collectors to participate in something that no other rare coin company can claim. We are sitting directly on top of the greatest numismatic find and creation in the history of the world. No matter what any of our competing companies in the world could try to do to replicate the rare Mandela R5 coins they would fail. The dynamics and market forces that have come into play with the coins are just not something that anyone could consciously create, they just happen. Our South Africa Mint and Nelson Mandela have created what is nothing less than 'the perfect rare coin'. We are sitting on a coin resource that is so powerful that it transcends just mere coins. It is in fact nothing less than 'the perfect investment'. These rare coins are so powerful that they are nothing less than a multibillion dollar global opportunity.

There are those that say that coins are not for them but an opportunity like this literally comes once in a life time. It will not ever be repeated again for any of us to see. Those who broaden their outlook and take a close look at the rare R5 Mandela coins will realise that the more you scrutinise and examine them the more favourable that they become. The rare R5 Mandela coins have an infectious nature and as soon as you are associated with them you quickly fall in love with these coins. They are fuzzy investments with blistering financial performance and the best tax advantage that you will ever find!

The greatest opportunity for investors and collectors to make money at this time is in the Mandela R5 coins with the exception of the finest known is with the rare R5 Mandela Birthday proof coins. We expect these coins to show explosive levels of appreciation over the next 5 years. With few if any global investments being able to come even near their growth levels! The South African Mint has only produced a mere 5 000 of these coins. That makes all of these coins rare and very sought after. To put this in perspective the South African mint manufactured 5 million of the uncirculated specimens. These coins are available in the grades PF-70, PF-69, PF-68, PF-67, PF-66 and PF-65. We expect that all of the coins that are in all grades will sell for R100 000 in the near future. Due to the low mintage figures that these coins have and the amount of investors and collectors that there are in the market today this price level will easily be achieved.

The coin above is a finest known specimen of the rare R5 Mandela proof birthday Mandela coins. We expect these coins to be freely selling for over R500 000 in a relatively short period of time. Buy as many of these coins as you can.

The rare Mandela R5 birthday coins in proof and also uncirculated are the most favourably accepted of all of the R5 coins that have been produced by date. There are a variety of reasons that you may come up with as to why these are the most popular rare R5 coins in the entire marketplace. Some say it is due to the high specifications of the striking and the extremely intricate design of the coins. We think that these are the most beautiful coins that the South African mint has ever manufactured! It does not really matter what the reasons are. It is the marketplace that dictates where the coins go in terms of growth and also acceptance. We are advising all of our clients to acquire as many of these coins as they can. With a particular emphasis on the acquisition of proofs at this time. Whilst both varieties are showing the highest levels of appreciation out of all of the rare R5 Mandela coins at this time there are very, very few of the proofs that have been manufactured. A mere 5 000 versus 5 million of their counterparts. It is therefore wise to acquire as many of the proofs that you can.

There are simply no investments on the global marketplace that are going to be able to give you the levels of appreciation that you will get from these coins and for our South African clients tax free! A very good idea is to compile as many of these coins as you can in the form of matching sets. Meaning that if you have both the proof and also the uncirculated or MS coins in a set. We will in the very near future be marketing the sets of the rare birthday Mandela coins in boxes that are made specifically for this purpose. The name of set will naturally be ''The Mandela Birthday Set''.

Nelson Mandela arrives in London for his birthday celebrations. Mandela turned 90 on July 18, 2008.

There are three major widely accepted grading services in the United States. They are NGC, PCGS and ANACS. Until this date we have only used NGC and PCGS as our grading companies. The grades that you get from all three companies are pretty much the same. The only major differences from these companies are the holders that they place the coins into, their charges and the turn around time. We are now going to make ANACS a primary grading company due to the excellent service that we are getting from them. Their turn around time is very fast, they have excellent holders and they email the grades and ship the coins through to us with great speed. This greatly assists us with the coins that we are submitting for grades and also expedites the delivery time that we are able to give through to our clients on coins that they have purchased. Particularly with the rare coins that are very highly sought after and that our clients expect to have delivered through to them with as much speed as possible. For those of you who would like to learn more about ANACS go through to their website on www.anacs.com.

We also have a very high acceptance of their newly designed holders. They are the easiest to stack due to high ridges and the design of the holders is very like by our clients. ANACS was the very first company to start grading coins for the ANA (American Numismatic Association) They began to grade coins in 1972. PCGS began grading coins in 1895 and NGC began grading coins in 1990. All three companies are very well run and have high levels of customer service. The time with which they take to grade coins and get them delivered back to us through can vary greatly dependent on the amount of staff and time that they give to the grading of world coins. It is obvious that the majority of the coins that all of these companies grade are American. The fact that these firms grade mostly American coins does not impair in the slightest their ability to grade our coins. The formula that you apply to the grading of an American or South African coin is exactly the same. It is all based on the amount of wear and tear that can be seen on the surface of the coin.

The coin above is a finest known specimen of the rare R5 Mandela proof birthday Mandela coins. We expect these coins to be freely selling for over R500 000 in a relatively short period of time. Buy as many of these coins as you can.



The coin above is a second finest known specimen of the rare R5 Mandela proof birthday Mandela coins. We expect these coins to be freely selling for over R250 000 in a relatively short period of time. Buy as many of these coins as you can.