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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, Gold Rushes - Otago
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette depicting two gold miners in period dress standing as supporters to a heraldic shield bearing crossed picks and the chemical symbol for gold (Au), evoking the Otago goldfields era. Flanking the central group are large silver fern fronds, while the lower field features crossed shovel and pick, a gold nugget, and a gold-panning dish. The legend NEW ZEALAND GOLD RUSHES arcs around the upper periphery, with OTAGO to the right, and the denomination TEN DOLLARS along the lower periphery. The designer's initials CRW appear in the lower right field. A beaded border encircles the entire design. |
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The Otago gold rush of 1861 was triggered when Gabriel Read, an experienced prospector who had worked the California fields, found gold at a site he described as shining "like the stars in Orion on a dark frosty night." The find at Gabriels Gully transformed the South Island almost overnight — Dunedin's population exploded, and Otago briefly became the wealthiest province in the country, financing much of the infrastructure that defined colonial New Zealand's economic centre of gravity shifting decisively south.
This issue is part of a four-coin series commemorating New Zealand's major gold rushes, paired with Thames, Coromandel, and West Coast releases of the same year.