South Africa

Cape Colony

Kaapkolonie

British administration. Issues 1808-1831.

REFERENCE: Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie by Gaul. "Kaap de Goede Hoop" - Cape of Good Hope, also English Cape Colony) - the first Dutch resettlement colony in South Africa with a center in Kapstad, then English possession (the city was renamed Cape Town). It was founded by a Dutch sailor named Jan van Riebeeck in 1652 in a convenient Table Bay near the Cape of Good Hope under the leadership of the Dutch East India Company. The Cape Colony proved to be the most successful resettlement project of all Dutch colonies and the most successful European resettlement project on the African continent. The Dutch, as well as the Germans and French Huguenots who joined them, formed a new white people in Africa - Afrikaners (also Boers) of about 3 million people. Based on the Dutch language, their new language, Afrikaans, developed here. In 1806, Great Britain captured the colony. Since that time, the number of immigrants from the British Isles began to gradually increase in the Cape Colony.

cat. # P
face value
year
Description/Notes
OBVERSE
REVERSE

East India Company

British East India Company

Issue 1808
P:1
1 rix dollar
1808

P:2
2 rix dollar
1808

P:3
3 rix dollar
1808

P:4
4 rix dollars
1808

P:5
5 rix dollars
1808

R:5A
8 rix dollars
1808

P:6
$10 rix
1808

P:6A
12 rix dollars
1808

P:6B
15 rix dollars
1808

P:7
20 rix dollars
1808

P:8
$25 rix
1808

P:9
30 rix dollars
1808

P:10
40 rix dollars
1808

P:11
50 rix dollars
1808

P:11A
60 rix dollars
1808

P:12
$75 rix
1808

P:13
100 rix dollars
1808

P:14
250 rix dollars
1808

P:15
300 rix dollars
1808

P:16
400 rix dollars
1808

P:17
500 rix dollars
1808

Issue 1810-1831
P:18
2 rix dollar
1816

P:18
2 rix dollar
1821

P:18
2 rix dollar
1825

P:19
$10 rix
1810

P:20
20 rix dollars
1823

P:21
100 rix dollars
1831

Government

Issue 1830
P:22
1 pound
1835

P:23
£20
1834