A prominent circle indicates the position of the heart, as well as serving as the placeholder for the small Tickey and the imagined cavity of the human chest. This diseased heart shows fat deposits, dying muscle and an area of blocked blood flow, as noted in the area where the frosted and polished surface seems darker. Also visible is the detailed texture of the outer wall of the heart, and even the puffy pillow-like tubing of the large and small intestines. The level of detail on this coin reveals the complexity of the veins and arteries weaving their way into and out of the heart, as well as the web of blood vessels connected to the liver. The R2 coin depicts in great detail the skeleton, epidermis, veins and organs of the torso area of the human body. 2017 Crown and Tickey Set with Heart Mould The engraver (aka die sinker) was Paul Botes of the South African Mint who worked closely with the designers to ensure that the precise details were transferred to the master tooling. The head designer on the coins was the South African Mint’s Richard Stone as well as renowned artist Carl Jeppe (a well-respected artist and lecturer of figure drawing at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria). Each coin depicts in accurate detail, the complexity of the human anatomy and beautifully pays homage to this great South African medical innovation. Together these coins allow the viewer to imagine the transplant the small Tickey coin depicting the human heart fits perfectly the design of a human chest cavity that appears on the larger crown coin. The extraordinary surgery is celebrated on the 2017 R2 crown and 2-½ cent Tickey, which portray the design of a human chest and heart respectively. The South African Mint has issued a pair of sterling silver collectable coins which celebrate the world’s first heart transplant. Jeffreys claims that other words for money in African languages have similar origins (Swahili pesa from Hindi pice, Zulu upeni a three-penny piece, from Hindi and Sanskrit pana), and that Zulu mali (money) is from Arabic malah (wealth, money), all resulting from early trading contact.The second instalment of the South African Inventions coin series from the South African Mint commemorates the life-saving heart transplant procedure, pioneered by Dr Chris Barnard in Cape Town 50 years ago. Jeffreys refers to Portuguese Angola, where the universal currency, a brass rod worth about 3d., was known as ntaku, but decides upon the Hindu taka (a stamped silver coin) as the origin of itiki in the Nguni languages of the east coast (whence it came into South African English usage). Both Xhosa and Zulu use itiki for the coin, described by lexicographers as being borrowed from South African English, but it is possible that itiki was in fact a rendering in the Nguni languages of a Dutch or English word, such as Dutch stukje ‘little bit’, or English ticket (see quotation 1912), or even threepence ( i-tiki-peni becoming u-no-tiki and then itiki, according to some, and recorded by Pettman). Note: Boshoff and Nienaber suggest British English dialect ticky ‘small’ as a possible origin ( Afrikaanse Etimologieë, 1967). The Malay tiga ‘three’ is also unlikely, as by the 19th century, when the coin was introduced, the influence of Malay was no longer strong. Jeffreys, in ‘Tickey: Origin of the Word’ ( Africana Notes & News, Vol.10), points out that pataca was derived from Arabic bataka dollar, piece of eight (a coin of high value), while the French pataque referred to coins in circulation in Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, and Brazil. Note: Pettman’s theory that the word comes from Portuguese pataca a colonial coin, or French patac ‘small coin’ (via the French Huguenots) is neither phonetically nor semantically likely. Forms: ticcy, tickie Show more Also ticcy, tickie, ticky, tiekie, tikie, tikkie.
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