| HISTORICAL EVENTS AT THE TIME UNION COINAGE WAS IN USE
Jan Christiaan Smuts (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950), served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. King George VI was Monarch of the Union of South Africa at the time of Smut's period as Prime Minister. He was the 2nd Prime Minister of south Africa
From 1910 to 1961 the head of state under the South Africa Act 1909 was the Monarch, who was the same person as the Monarch of the United Kingdom and of the other Dominions/Commonwealth realms. The monarch was represented in South Africa by a Governor-General.
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
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