Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek

[ElleKitty]

Wikipedia:

The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, or ZAR), often informally known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Afrikaner/Boer country in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. It is not to be confused with the present-day South Africa; rather, it occupied the area later known as the South African province of Transvaal. The ZAR was established in 1852, and was independent from 1856 to 1877, then again from 1881 to 1900 after the First Boer War, in which the Boers regained their independence from the British Empire.

In 1900 the ZAR was annexed by the United Kingdom during the Second Boer War but the Boers officially gave in only in 1902. In 1910 it became the Transvaal province of the Union of South Africa. The first president of the South African Republic was Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, who commanded the Boers to victory at the Battle of Blood River.

[dustin43160]

nice beard!!

[scottishmoney]

I kick myself for selling an 1898 gold Pond coin that I had, I auctioned it off on eBay a few years ago.  Now I cannot even find a nice one like the one I sold.  These coins are fascinating because basically the same portrait was used much later on for the Krugerrands.