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

  This coin bearing the head of King George II was Struck every year of his  relatively long reign, and the designs underwent many minor changes regarding the size of the lettering. The "intermediate head" as it is refered to, made an appearance as well as the E.I.C East India Company versions. In 1732 the old hammered gold coins were discontinued, and the gold thereof, may have been recoined into the new issues of the series at the time. It was decreed that 'if any person colours or alters any shilling or sixpence, either lawful or counterfeit, to make them respectively resemble a guinea or halfguinea, or any halfpenny or farthing, to make them respectively resemble a shilling or sixpence, this is also high treason.' The reason for this decree, was that the reverse side of the guinea with its shield design, closely resembeled that of the shilling reverse, that also carried the shield as a motif.

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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