Catalog
10 Dollars Millennium
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1967-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | CELEBRATING NEW ZEALAND'S FREE SPIRIT & QUEST FOR ADVENTURE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND COMMEMORATING THE NEW MILLENNIUM THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR TEN DOLLARS |
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| Protection description | Polymer substrate providing inherent security; clear window at lower right (obverse) / lower left (reverse) containing an intaglio-printed silver fern motif |
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New Zealand's Millennium note was a commemorative issue rather than a regular series replacement — the Reserve Bank released it as a limited circulation piece to mark the 2000 transition, though it remained legal tender. Note Printing Australia had been producing New Zealand's polymer notes since the country switched from paper in 1999, so this issue came early in that relationship.
The polymer substrate itself was the security feature the RBNZ leaned on most heavily at the time, having adopted Guardian polymer technology developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia. The clear window on this denomination was integrated into the design rather than treated as a retrofit — a distinction worth noting for collectors assessing printing quality around the window edges.