The Great Britain Coin Series used in South Africa during the British occupation of the Cape Colony, Natal, and the ZAR.

    The English East India Company had also set into circulation Indian silver rupees as well as gold pagodas and mohurs. Besides these coins Japanese koban, English Guinea, Portuguese joannes, Russian roubles and several other nationalities’ coins are mentioned in the tariffs.From the South African Coin and Banknote Catalogue

Dutch East India Company had founded the Cape Colony on the southern tip of Africa in 1652 as a way station for its ships travelling to and from its colonies in the East Indies. Britain formally acquired the colony, as it needed to establish a port stop for its sailing fleets to and from India which it was in the process of colonising as part of the British Empire. The Capes large Afrikaner (or Boer) population in 1806 began migrating northward, having occupied the Cape in 1795 in order to prevent its falling into French hands, following the invasion of the Netherlands by France. British immigration began to rise after 1820. 

South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the Anglo Boer War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world’s largest goldfields were discovered on the Witwatersrand. Societies of European South Africa began to urbanize and industrialize, the region evolved into a major supplier of precious minerals to the world economy; gold especially was urgently needed to back national currencies and ensure the continued flow of expanding international trade. British colonies, Boer republics, and African kingdoms all came under British control. These dramatic changes were propelled by two linked forces: the development of a capitalist mining industry and a sequence of imperialist interventions by Britain.

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