10 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Māui and the First Dog I: Māui / Gold

Part of New Zealand's long-running Māui and the Fish mythological series, this issue draws on oral traditions of Māui taming the first dog — a story that varies considerably across Polynesian cultural groups, with some iwi treating the narrative as a record of early domestication and others as straightforward cosmological myth. The Reserve Bank has used the series since the 2010s as a vehicle for gold bullion coinage with cultural framing, targeting collector markets rather than circulation.

At half a troy ounce in .9999 fine gold, the specification aligns with standard fractional bullion formats popular in the Asia-Pacific collector market during this period.