The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has the sole responsibility for issuing New Zealands currency.
New Zealand's polymer notes are printed by Note Print Australia Limited in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past ten years, New Zealand's coins have minted by the Royal Canadian Mint and the Royal Mint in London.
With the possible exception of "Traders Tokens", there were no New Zealand coins minted prior to 1933. Any coins circulating in New Zealand prior to 1933 would have been mostly British coins and some Australian coins.
any cent value of new zealand is its face value 1cent coins: 1 cent each. The value of older money does not go up and is will not be accepted as tender at shops etc, you will have to exchange it at the reserve bank of new zealand to have it as ledgable tender. However, classic coins and notes etc may be worth more if sold to collectors (See www.trademe.co.nz)
The NZ $1 coin has a kiwi depicted on it.
Zero. No general circulation New Zealand decimal coin has any silver content, or any other precious metal. Prior to 1947, New Zealand predecimal silver coins had a 50% silver content. All "silver" coins minted from 1947 onwards were made from a copper-nickel alloy. The only exception to this was the 1949 Crown (Five Shillings) which was minted from 50% silver.
Coins at the Canadian Mint, and the polymer notes are made in Australia.
The two related links below show New Zealand's predecimal coins and New Zealand's current coins.
No. All New Zealand predecimal coins and notes were withdrawn from circulation shortly after the introduction of decimal currency in 1967 and subsequently demonetised. The 1967, 1968 and 1969 New Zealand 10 cent coins carried the words "ONE SHILLING" on the reverse along with the "10", but these were withdrawn and demonetised along with all other pre-2006 10 cent coins after the new design coins were issued.
New Zealand's polymer notes are printed by Note Print Australia Limited in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past ten years, New Zealand's coins have minted by the Royal Canadian Mint and the Royal Mint in London.
Prior to 1933, New Zealand used mainly British coins and a some Australian coins.
The head on New Zealand coins is that of the New Zealand Queen, Elizabeth II. Her representative in NZ is the Governor General.
Tarianna Turia is the Minister for Disability Issues for New Zealand.
All New Zealand silver coins from 1933 to 1946 had a silver content of 50%. From 1947 onwards, all New Zealand "silver" coins were made from a copper-nickel alloy.
With the possible exception of "Traders Tokens", there were no New Zealand coins minted prior to 1933. Any coins circulating in New Zealand prior to 1933 would have been mostly British coins and some Australian coins.
There were no New Zealand Florin coins minted from 1954 to 1960 inclusive. There were no New Zealand Halfcrown coins minted from 1954 to 1960 inclusive.
There were 35,043,0000 New Zealand one cent coins minted for issue in 1974.
Timothy John Groser is the Minister for Climate Change Issues for New Zealand.