New Zealand's commemorative dollar program has issued WWII remembrance pieces in multiple formats across several anniversaries; the 2020 issue marks the 75th year since the war's end in 1945, when roughly 140,000 New Zealanders had served overseas out of a total population barely exceeding 1.6 million — a per-capita mobilization rate among the highest of any Allied nation.
New Zealand's commemorative dollar program has issued WWII remembrance pieces in multiple formats across several anniversaries; the 2020 issue marks the 75th year since the war's end in 1945, when roughly 140,000 New Zealanders had served overseas out of a total population barely exceeding 1.6 million — a per-capita mobilization rate among the highest of any Allied nation.