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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
1d red
August 1882
Bowden to the Gold Fields in the Transvaal
May 1887
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Main feature
The 2d Y2 ounce rate to the South African republic [Transvaal] was introduced in July 1883 to replace the 4d rate .
The Transvaal was annexed by the United Kingdom in 1877 but was declared a
Republic by the Boers in December 1880 . 
