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Not sure what to make of it.. but I'm doing research in my family tree, and I've found that both in the "one world tree" from ancestry.com and in my family tree, he is refered to as "Thomas Francois Burger" not bugers. Xhable (talk) 08:05, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Grave stone

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Inscription on gravestone in Heroes' Acre, for confirmation of dates etc, based on photo by Daan Prinsloo.

EENDRAGT MAAKT MAGT
HIER RUST
THOMAS FRANCOIS BURGERS
OVERLEDEN 9 DEC. 1881.
DE VOLKSRAAD DER Z.A. REPUBLIEK
BEREIDDE DEZE RUSTPLAATS
VOOR HAREN VROEGEREN
STAATS PRESIDENT
VAN 1872 tot 1877.
DOOR ZIJNE VRIENDEN N.J. EN J.S. SMIT
HIER RUST
OOK ZIJN GELIEFDE VROUW
MARY BRYSON
OVERLEDEN 26 APRIL 1929.
TER GEDACHTENIS AAN ONS GELIEFDE OUDERS

Located at 25°44′48.36″S 28°10′33.33″E / 25.7467667°S 28.1759250°E / -25.7467667; 28.1759250. JMK (talk) 09:51, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Obverse and reverse of a 1874 South African one-pound coin

Thomas François Burgers (1834–1881) was the fourth president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) from 1872 to 1877. The first coins of the Transvaal Burgerspond were introduced by Burgers in 1874, responding to a demand for coinage from the populace dating back to 1853. Burgers sent a portrait of himself to his UK consul-general, who commissioned the coins to be struck at Heaton's Mint in Birmingham, England. Some people in the South African Republic objected to the issue of the Burgerspond because the portrayal of the president on coins was perceived to liken him to a dictator. This one-pound coin, minted in 1874, bears an effigy of Burgers on the obverse and the coat of arms of the Transvaal on the reverse.

Coin design credit: Heaton's Mint; photographed by Andrew Shiva

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