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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, Smaug the Terrible
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The fourth crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend 'NEW ZEALAND ELIZABETH II' arcs around the upper periphery, with the date '2014' positioned below the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued under a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. to coincide with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — filmed largely at Weta Workshop facilities in Wellington — this piece is legal tender in New Zealand but was never intended for circulation. The pad-printing technique applied over the aluminium bronze blank allows photographic-quality color reproduction that conventional minting cannot achieve, at the cost of durability; the printed layer is vulnerable to handling wear in ways that struck relief is not.