Catalog
10 Dollars Blue back
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of suffragist Kate Sheppard at right in intaglio, with her name inscribed below in letterpress; white camellia vignette at left centre, with the Governor's facsimile signature above. The denomination numeral '10' appears in guilloche underprint at lower left and in a colour-shifting panel at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of whio (blue ducks) amid kiokio fern fronds, with pineapple scrub rendered at bottom left; the design is executed against a predominantly blue tonal background with fine guilloche patterning framing the central scene. |
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Donald Brash signed this series as Governor from 1988 to 2002, a tenure that included the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1989 — the legislation that formally enshrined inflation targeting as the bank's primary mandate, one of the earliest such statutory commitments anywhere in the world. The "Blue back" designation distinguishes it from the subsequent polymer issues introduced progressively from 1999, when New Zealand began transitioning away from De La Rue paper entirely.
Paper examples from the mid-1990s saw heavy ATM circulation and tend to show wear concentrated along the horizontal fold lines.