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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Māui and the First Dog II: Irawaru, Silver

Issuer Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Year 2020
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Value 1 Dollar
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Reverse description The reverse depicts Irawaru, transformed into the first dog of Māori legend, shown in a forlorn posture, accompanied by his weeping wife Hinauri, sister of the demigod Māui, who mourns the loss of her husband. This forms the second coin of the two-coin set 'Māui rāua ko Irawaru' (Māui and the First Dog). The design is richly embellished with traditional koru spiral motifs drawn from Māori visual culture, rendered in selective gold plating against a frosted proof field. The bilingual denomination inscriptions 'KOTAHI TĀRA' in te reo Māori and 'ONE DOLLAR' in English appear in the legend.
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Reverse lettering KOTAHI TĀRA ONE DOLLAR
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