| HISTORICAL EVENTS AT THE TIME UNION COINAGE WAS IN USE
On 18 December 1923 the first experimental wireless radio broadcast in South Africa took place in Johannesburg . The Broadcast was of a music concert and was made by the Western Electric Company. By April 1927 an hour of Afrikaans programming and one daily news bulletin in Afrikaans was broadcast. Insufficient funding began to hamper the progress of the broadcaster and an investigation into all aspects of broadcasting in South Africa . The outcome of the investigation resulted in the establishment of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and by 17 July 1950 a commercial radio service was established, with daily news bulletins in both English and Afrikaans – this radio service was popularly known as Springbok Radio.
Up to 1960, South Africa used the British system of 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound (240 pennies to the pound). this coinage system dominated South Africa for more than a century as Lord Charles Somerset issued an ordinance as far back as 6 June 1825 declaring British Sterling as legal tender at the Cape (Arndt, 1928). This was part of a process to introduce a uniform monetary system for the British Colonies at the time. A shortage of coins nevertheless delayed this process for several years, but after 1848, only coins of the Sterling series were accepted. These coins became firmly entrenched throughout the whole of South Africa and even the Kruger coins, minted in the Transvaal Republic during 1892 to 1900, conformed to the British system (Engelbrecht, 1987).Source: Francois Malan
THE CURRENT CATALOGUES' INDICATIVE VALUE FOR THE
1923 2 SHILLING PF 61 IS: R 5 500
1923 1 SHILLING PF 62 IS: R 3 000
1923 6 PENNY PF 63 IS: R 3 000
OUR CHOICE NUMISMATIC OFFER
1923 2 SHILLING MS 61 - R 4 500
1923 1 SHILLING MS 62 - R 2 500
1923 6 PENNY MS 63 - R 2 500
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