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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. [1] The initial circulation coins of the Republic were the following: [2] 1 ⁄ 2 cent (approximately replaced 1 ⁄ 2 d)
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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.
The government of the Cape Colony issued a £1 note in 1835 and a £20 note in 1834. Between 1869 and 1872, the ZAR in Transvaal issued notes for 6d, 1/–, 2/6, 5/–, 10/–, £1, £5 and £10. The National Bank of the ZAR issued £1 notes between 1892 and 1893.
The British decimal twenty pence coin (often shortened to 20p in writing and speech) is a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 5 of a pound. Like the 50p coin, it is an equilateral curve heptagon. [1] Its obverse has featured the profile of Queen Elizabeth II since the coin's introduction on 9 June 1982. [1]
The Madagascar 10 ariary coin is seven-sided. [20] The British twenty pence and fifty pence coins are heptagonal Reuleaux polygons, [21] [22] as is the United Arab Emirates 50 fils coin, the Barbados one dollar coin, [23] and several coins from Botswana. [24] Many countries in the Commonwealth of Nations have issued heptagonal coins.
In 1974, coins for 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents and 1 lilangeni were introduced, with the 1 and 2 cents struck in bronze and the others struck in cupro-nickel. Except for the 1 lilangeni, the coins were not round, with the 1 and 50 cents dodecagonal, the 2 cents square with rounded corners and the 5, 10 and 20 cents scalloped.
There were 12 pence in one shilling, and 20 shillings in one pond. 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.