Currency history
South African pound
South African pound: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
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Where this money came from
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DocumentedQualified
PredecessorGBP · GIP
Pound sterlingThis currency
South African poundSuccessor or branchZAR
South African rand1961Documented0.5 South African pound = 1 ZAR
The story
South Africa replaced its pound with two rand per pound. [1]
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“South African pound.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000191.html