Talk:Coins of the South African pound

message: The following sentence in the article is incorrect in my opinion. "The Double Shaft coins are known by the nickname Disselboom, which is Afrikaans for Double Shaft."
A "disselboom" is the word for the single shaft extending from a wagon for purposes of harnessing draft animals in pairs. It does not refer to the mechanism on a wagon made for draft animals in single file, which comprises of double shafts.
The "Double Shaft" coins are of interest because the European minters struck the image of the ox wagon with double shafts, which was not the type of wagon commonly used in South Africa, but which was more common in Europe.
I do not know what the actual nickname for this coin is, but it certainly can't be "disselboom", and if it is, it is incorrect. 
Another type of South African coin which was also struck in Europe bore the image of a little bushveld tree. The Europeans thought that the tree was too "boring" and added round fruits to it to spruce it up, even though no indigenous South African trees bear fruit like those depicted on the coin. 196.211.98.154 (talk) 13:23, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are quite right - Disselboom != "double shaft".  I am in the process of rewriting this article. Martinvl (talk) 17:46, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Disselboom != "double shaft"

message: On the main article, there are some pictures of the old South African penny which are on a scale that is most misleading. Everybody in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Republic of Ireland who remembers those old 'coppers' remembers a large coin. The scale used ought to be 1:1. As it stands, the old pennies are depicted as being virtually the same size as the farthings. This is very misleading. David Tombe (talk) 13:41, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Try to get the pictures to scale 

message: Do these two sections have a place in this article?  Both are poorly written and unreferenced. Martinvl (talk) 20:48, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kruger Brass Tokens and Popularity of Kruger coins in Scotland 

message: The Griquatown tokens sent to Griquatown in the about 1817 were a complete failure. {{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/summation.pdf |title=Proof that the Griquatown tokens never circulated can be seen at this link. Not one token ever circulated.
In summary: 
The resident missionary William Anderson there at the time makes no reference to them{{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/petera1.htm |title=Peter Anderson, author of the 1995 book "Weapons of Peace" about William Anderson notes not one reference is ever made by the missionary about the tokens.
Secondly, Griquatown was a ghost town when the tokens arrived c 1817.(Source: "Weapons of Peace" by Peter Anderson - first published 1995).
There was no store in which to trade the tokens, not one reference is made to the Griquatown tokens in any of the records of the London Missionary Society's detailed record of assets (which include ivory, Rijksdaalder and goats).{{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/helm.htm |title=Transcript of Helm's comments in the London Missionary Society records.
, 
The suggestion by Parsons that they circulated, and those who since parroted his research, has been discarded by all mainstream coin experts including Spink and Son (who originally contracted Parsons to research the tokens in 1927); Krause Coin Catalogues; Stanley Gibbon as well as Morgan Carroll in the latest South African Coin catalogue {{cite web |url=http://www.coinsrsa.com |title=The latest 2016 South African Coin Catalgoue. Krause now recognize the Griquatown tokens as fantasy coins.{{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/summation.pdf |title=A single page PDF that exposes the Griquatown token fantasy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by  58.96.54.86  (talk • contribs) 04:44, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The dying fantasy of the Griqua coinage 

message: The Strachan tokens were first issued in 3d, 6d, 1/- and 2/- in 1874 and are South Africa's first widely circulating indigenous currency.
The son of Donald Strachan, Douglas Strachan, notes the S&Co tokens were issued not long after 1870{{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/sandco/1874.jpg |title=Screendump of certified diary note by Douglas Strachan, certified by his son Ken Strachan, confirms the S&Co first released in early 1870s. In this same diary note Douglas Strachan notes that the S&Co tokens were "accepted everywhere". The area of circulation from the stores at Umzimkhulu quickly spread to a large area including Kokstad about 100kms to the south. Ken Strachan, Douglas Strachan's son, told Scott Balson in the late 1970s that the S&Co tokens were launched on the day the company opened its doors in 1874.
In 1874 the area known as East Griqualand was an independent state run by the Griqua and one of the directors of Strachan and Co, Brisley, was the state's parliamentary secretary.{{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/nortje.htm#2 |title=Confirming the S&Co were first released in 1874. This fact is confirmed by the Standard Bank in Kokstad who note that in 1878 the only "money" used in Kokstad was the S&Co tokens.{{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/Kokstad125.pdf |title=The Standard Bank 125 year celebration of doing business in Kokstad - published 2003 - where they confirm the S&Co tokens were used in Kokstad about 100km from Umzimkhulu.
The S&Co token preceded the Kruger coinage by eighteen years making them the first indigenous coins widely used in South Africa.
In recent months there have been attempts by a coin dealer to discredit this and a detailed expose of his fraud can be seen at this link.{{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/nortje.htm |title=Exposing the attempt by Nortje trying to to rewrite numismatic history in South Africa.
The information supporting the fact that the S&Co were South Africa's first widely circulating indigenous currency is overwhelming.{{cite web |url=http://www.tokencoins.com/summation1.pdf |title=Two page PDF summarizing the evidence that the S&CO tokens were South Africa's first widely circulating indigenous currency. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.96.54.86 (talk • contribs) 05:08, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strachan and Co currency (S&Co) tokens

message: I need a coins buyer
Silver  and brown. Nonduslindi3 (talk) 20:04, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  coins buyer 

message: Thanks Nonduslindi3 (talk) 20:09, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  seller 

message: I have 1(1961) half cent and 1 (1963) half cent also have an half penny are you interest in it or not contact me on 076 2077 490 if you are interest in the coins also have WhatsApp 
Thank you 102.66.219.21 (talk) 21:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  coins collect