Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, Great Spotted Kiwi
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | KM#300 |
| Obverse description | Fourth crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, after the design by Ian Rank-Broadley, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The legend 'NEW ZEALAND ELIZABETH II' arcs around the upper periphery, with the date '2007' positioned below the portrait. The designer's initials 'IRB' appear truncated at the base of the bust. A beaded border frames the field. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
New Zealand's great spotted kiwi (Apteryx haastii) is the largest of the three kiwi species and the one most restricted to high-altitude South Island terrain — a distribution that kept it off the extinction brink longer than its lowland relatives but has left it critically isolated in fragmented alpine populations. By 2007, estimated wild numbers had fallen below 16,000.
Ian Rank-Broadley's effigy of Elizabeth II, his fourth portrait revision, first appeared on circulating coinage in 1998 and was adopted for New Zealand collector issues shortly after.