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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, Sir Edmund Hillary
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2008 - Proof - 1,953 |
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Issued the year Hillary died — January 2008 — this piece was almost certainly authorized as a memorial response to his death rather than a planned commemorative. Hillary had appeared on the circulating $5 note since 1999, the only living person other than the monarch to appear on New Zealand currency during his lifetime, a distinction he reportedly found uncomfortable.
The .9999 fineness and 7.777 g weight place this squarely in the "lucky sevens" bullion format briefly fashionable among Pacific-rim mints in the late 2000s.