New Zealand | |
Value | 0.20 New Zealand dollars |
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Mass | 4.00 g |
Diameter | 21.75 mm |
Thickness | 1.56 mm |
Edge | "Spanish flower" |
Composition | Nickel-plated steel |
Years of minting | 2006–present |
Catalog number | – |
Obverse | |
Design | Queen Elizabeth II |
Designer | Ian Rank-Broadley |
Design date | 1999 |
Reverse | |
Design | Māori carving of Pukaki, a chief of the Ngāti Whakaue iwi |
Designer | Robert Maurice Conly |
Design date | 1990 |
The New Zealand twenty-cent coin is the second-lowest-denomination coin of the New Zealand dollar. The 20-cent coin was introduced when the New Zealand dollar was introduced on 10 July 1967, replacing the New Zealand florin coin. Its original reverse of a kiwi was changed in 1990 when the image was moved onto the one-dollar coin. In 2006 its size was reduced and its edge altered to a Spanish flower as part of a revision of New Zealand's coins, which also saw its alloy become nickel-plated steel instead of cupro-nickel.