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10 Dollars - Charles III Fuller Portrait - Cave Taniwha, Gold Proof
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Uncrowned effigy of King Charles III in left-facing profile, rendered in high relief with finely engraved hair detail, attributed to sculptor Steven John Finch (initials SJF visible at the truncation). The circular legend along the upper rim reads CHARLES III · NEW ZEALAND, with the fineness and metal specifications .9999 Au 1oz inscribed at the lower left of the field, and the date 2024 at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHARLES III · NEW ZEALAND .9999 Au 1oz 2024 |
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The taniwha of Māori tradition occupies a genuinely ambiguous place in the culture — neither straightforwardly monster nor guardian, but a being whose nature shifts depending on the relationship between it and the people of a given waterway or cave. The cave-dwelling variant specifically is associated with subterranean passages, sinkholes, and the kind of geological feature that early Māori navigators and settlers would have encountered and mapped through oral tradition rather than cartography.
The "fuller portrait" designation distinguishes this issue from the transitional effigy used on New Zealand coinage immediately following Elizabeth II's death — Charles III's definitive portrait, sculpted by Martin Jennings, was formally approved for Commonwealth coinage in 2023.