Single 9 Ponds were first created during the Anglo-Boer War, a period during the latter 19th Century when the British and Afrikaans Dutch waged a bloody war against one another to seize control of the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xago Technologies (Pty) Ltd. in CAPE TOWN, South Africa, announces support for the British Pound with its stable coin XGB which is backed 1:1 with the Pound, ...

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa on Friday launched a set of limited edition bank notes and gold coins to mark the 100th anniversary on July 18 of the birth of Nelson Mandela. The South African ...

Can a handful of ancient African coins, discovered almost 70 years ago by a lone soldier on a remote island, rewrite history? A weathered, hand-drawn map, with an "X" marking the spot on the ...

One of the lesser benefices conferred by Britain’s empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire slowly ...

The 1898 “Single 9” Pond is considered to be South Africa’s rarest form of coin. While greatly desired throughout South Africa, this rare gold coin is hardly known outside of the country. Single 9 ...