The Burgers Pond: A Tale of South Africa’s First Gold Coin

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1874 South African Republican Burgers Pond, Fine Beard. Image: Stack’s Bowers / CoinWeek. By CoinWeek… The discovery of vast diamond deposits transformed the region that would become South Africa in the 1870s, causing a huge wave of migration, with people arriving from Europe and other parts of the African continent. This led to a rapid […]