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The National Bank of the ZAR issued £1 notes between 1892 and 1893. During the Second Boer War , government notes were issued in denominations of £1, £5, £10, £20, £50 and £100. In 1920, Treasury gold certificate notes were issued in denominations of £1, £5, £100, £1,000 and £10,000, in Afrikaans and English script.
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression lībra pondō, in which lībra is a noun meaning 'pound' and pondō is an adverb meaning 'by weight'. [1] [2] The currency's symbol is ' £ ', a stylised form of the blackletter 'L' (from libra), crossed to indicate abbreviation. [3]
1980: Withdrawal of the sixpence (6d) coin, which had continued in circulation at a value of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 p. 1982: The word "new" was dropped from the coinage and a 20p coin was introduced. 1983: A (round, brass) £1 coin was introduced. 1983: The 1 ⁄ 2 p coin was last produced. 1984: The 1 ⁄ 2 p coin was withdrawn from circulation.
The 1978 series began with denominations of 2, 5, 10, and 20 rand, with a 50 rand introduced in 1984. This series had only one language variant for each denomination of note. Afrikaans was the first language on the 2, 10, and 50 rand, while English was the first on the 5 and 20 rand. A coin replaced the 1 rand note.
Existing banknotes had the word "sterling" overstamped, later issues omitted the word altogether. In 1967, the pound was replaced by the pa'anga at a rate of £1 = T$2. Banknotes
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These coins depict the portrait of the President Kruger. The name of the Republic was the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, which was abbreviated as ZAR on the obverse of the 1d, the 2 1 ⁄ 2 s, the 5s, the 1/2 pond, and the 1 pond. The coins of the 1892 issue were struck at the Royal Prussian Mint in Berlin.