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300th Anniversary of the founding of Cape Town, designed by Marion Walgate for the 1952 5-Shillings. The obverse continued the previous design by T. Humphrey Paget and the reverse the previous designs by George Kruger Gray. The 5-Shillings coin dated 1952 was a commemorative issue celebrating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Cape Town. [10]
The hypothetical currency is sometimes referred to as the afro or afriq. [2] In April 2021, Wamkele Mene, Secretary General of the AfCFTA said: "I don't know how long it will take for Africa to have a common currency. It may not happen in our lifetime, but we have got to start somewhere to address the multiplicity of currencies as a constraint ...
At that time, the only British colony in Southern Africa was the Cape Colony. As time went on, sterling and its associated coinage became the currency of every British territory in Southern Africa . At that time sterling followed the Carolingian monetary system of a pound divided into 20 shillings , each of 12 pence .
6) In July 1817 it was confirmed by the LMS agent in Cape Town that both copper and silver coinage arrived in South Africa. 7) In August 1820, Reverend John Campbell notes that he would apply to the Cape Government to sanction the passing of the Griqua money in the Cape Colony. If so sanctioned, he notes that the Griquas would readily take the ...
The rand was introduced in the then Union of South Africa on 14 February 1961, shortly before the establishment of the Republic on 31 May 1961. The rand replaced the pound with a decimal currency: 100 cents (100c) = 1 rand (R1), 1 rand
The currency softened somewhat in 2005, trading around R6.35 to the dollar at the end of the year. At the start of 2006, however, the currency resumed its rally and, as of 19 January 2006, was trading under R6 to the dollar again. However, the rand weakened significantly during the second and third quarters of 2006 (i.e., April through September).
The Ora (pronounced; symbol: ะค) [1] is the local currency of Orania, an Afrikaner town in South Africa first issued in April 2004. It is pegged at par with the South African rand . [ 1 ] The name, recalling that of the town where it circulates, derives from Latin aurum , meaning "gold". [ 2 ]
The Cape Town Stock Exchange (CTSE) is a stock exchange based in Cape Town, South Africa. [1] It is the second largest stock exchange in South Africa, after the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), and the only one other than the JSE that is authorized to trade in both equity and debt. [2]