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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Posthumous, 4th Portrait - Tokoeka Kiwi, Gold Proof
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A Tokoeka southern brown kiwi (Apteryx australis) depicted in naturalistic detail, foraging along the shoreline in its native habitat on Rakiura (Stewart Island). The bird is shown in profile with its long, slender bill probing the ground. The denomination 10 DOLLARS appears in the legend, accompanied by the common name TOKOEKA SOUTHERN BROWN KIWI and the scientific binomial Apteryx australis. |
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Struck in the year following Elizabeth II's death in September 2022, this issue carries the fourth portrait of the queen — the Maklouf effigy introduced in 1985 — rather than the fifth portrait by Jody Clark that had been in circulation use since 2015. The deliberate reversion to an earlier likeness was a curatorial choice by the Royal New Zealand Mint, not an error, intended to honor the queen's longer reign association with that image in the Pacific region.
The tokoeka is the rarest of New Zealand's kiwi subspecies, native primarily to Fiordland and Haast.