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Many counterfeit Veldpond, is said to have been struck with the Veldpond dies after the war. In 1934 the Mintmaster of the Royal Mint in Pretoria, Mr Becklake, began a search for the original dies. At that time it was believed that Lord Kitchener had seized them. Becklake's search into Kitchener's correspondence revealed that it was never in his possession.111 Two years later professor EHD Arndt discovered that when General Muller came back from Vereeniging to assist his commandos with laying down arms, Kloppers handed the dies to him around 14 June 1902.112 General Muller donated the pair of Veldpond dies, between 1910-1914, to the diamond magnate Sir T Cullinan. In 1939 Sir Cullinan's widow knew nothing of it and in a letter written by her secretary it is stated that the dies may have been stolen by one of the employees.113
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