This lesson looks at the Great Depression and the gold standard in South Africa and how these impacted the way that money worked in the country, and many other countries in the world.

*This lesson was developed by a South African History graduate (Amy Rommelspacher, amyrom@sun.ac.za), as part of a collaboration between Stellenbosch University, the London School of Economics and the Smithsonian with a goal of creating lesson plans for South African students using objects from the National Numismatic Collection. There are four lessons in total.

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South African lesson 4: Bretton Woods, national currencies and South Africa's new money