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It replaced the South African pound as legal tender, at the rate of 2 rand to 1 pound, or 10 shillings to the rand. The government introduced a mascot, Decimal Dan, "the rand-cent man" (known in Afrikaans as Daan Desimaal). [4] This was accompanied by a radio jingle to inform the public about the new currency. [5]
The pound (Afrikaans: pond; symbol £, £SA [1] for distinction) was the currency of the Union of South Africa from the formation of the country as a British Dominion in 1910. It was replaced by the rand in 1961 when South Africa decimalised.
100 Lebanon: Lebanese pound: LL LBP Piastre: 100 Lesotho: Lesotho loti: L or M (pl.) LSL Sente: 100 South African rand: R ZAR Cent: 100 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Falkland Islands pound £ FKP Penny: 100 Sterling £ GBP Penny: 100 Liberia: Liberian dollar $ LRD Cent: 100 United States dollar $ USD Cent: 100 Libya: Libyan ...
The 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar banknote (10 14 dollars), equal to 10 27 pre-2006 dollars. On 30 July 2008, the dollar was redenominated and given a new currency code of ZWR. [23] After 1 August 2008, 10 billion ZWN were worth 1 ZWR. [23] Coins valued at Z$5, Z$10 and Z$25 and banknotes worth Z$5, Z$10, Z$20, Z$100, and Z$500 were issued in ...
South African rand: ZAR R South Africa: South Sudanese pound: SSP £ South Sudan: Sudanese pound: SDG LS or ج.س Sudan: Swazi lilangeni: SZL L (singular) E (plural) Eswatini: Tanzanian shilling: TZS TSh Tanzania: Tunisian dinar: TND DT (Latin) د.ت (Tunisian Arabic) Tunisia: Ugandan shilling: UGX USh Uganda: Zambian kwacha: ZMW K Zambia
In 1923, South Africa began to issue its own coins, adopting coins that were identical in size and value to those used in Great Britain: 12 pence (12d) = 1 shilling (1s), and 20s = 1 pound (£1). On 14 February 1961, the Union of South Africa adopted a decimal currency, replacing the pound with the Rand.
The rand replaced the pound with a decimal currency: 100 cents (100c) = 1 rand (R1), 1 rand being valued at 10 shillings and 1 cent at 1.2 pence. The coins bore the forward-facing portrait of Jan van Riebeeck on the obverse.
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' ( L {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}} ) (from libra ), crossed to indicate abbreviation.