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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Lord Ernest Rutherford of Nelson in intaglio at centre-right, with his name inscribed vertically beside the vignette; the Nobel Prize medal appears at left against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The legal tender inscription is rendered in letterpress along the lower portion of the note, with the denomination numeral '100' in large red figures at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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New Zealand's switch to polymer banknotes began in 1999, which makes this 1992 De La Rue paper issue one of the last generations of conventionally printed New Zealand currency before the substrate changed entirely. The $100 denomination was the highest in domestic circulation at the time, and paper examples from this series are notably prone to heavy wear given their practical use — clean survivors are genuinely less common than the print run figures might suggest.
De La Rue's involvement with New Zealand notes stretches back decades, and the watermark security on this issue was already considered minimal by early-1990s standards, a factor that accelerated the move toward polymer.