New Zealand | |
Value | 1.00 New Zealand dollars |
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Mass | 8.00 g |
Diameter | 23.00 mm |
Thickness | 2.74 mm |
Edge | Intermittently milled |
Composition | Copper-Aluminium-Nickel (Cu 92%, Al 6%, Ni 2%) |
Years of minting | 1990–present |
Catalog number | – |
Obverse | |
Design | Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand |
Designer | Raphael David Maklouf Ian Rank-Broadley |
Design date | 1986 (RDM) 1999 (IRB) |
Reverse | |
Design | A kiwi surrounded by silver fern fronds |
Designer | Robert Maurice Conly |
Design date | 1990 |
The New Zealand one-dollar coin ($1) is a coin of the New Zealand dollar. The current circulating coin was introduced on 11 February 1991 to replace the existing $1 note. There had previously been occasional issues of commemorative "silver dollars", but they are rarely seen in circulation.
The depiction of a kiwi on the reverse helps give the New Zealand dollar the colloquial name "Kiwi (dollar)", although the term was in use before the $1 coin was introduced.
Both the $1 and $2 coins are gold-coloured, and requests for a Koha, donation or entry fee sometimes say gold coin please.