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3 Dollars - Millennium First Note
| Issuer | Chatham Islands Note Corporation |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | MILLENNIUM FIRST NOTE MILLENNIUM CHATHAM ISLANDS MILLENNIUM 2000 NEW ZEALAND 2000 NOTE THIS NOTE IS NEGOTIABLE TENDER [serial number] OTE ON THE CHATHAM ISLANDS FOR THE MILLENNIUM YEAR 2000 LIMITED COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE THREE DOLLARS THREE HUNDRED CENTS SERIES 1999A Issued by the Chatham A CHATHAM Islands Note Corporation FIRST TO SEE THE SUN |
| Reverse description | Green guilloche border with fern and scroll motifs frames a central composite vignette in purple tones: at left, a historical photograph of the first motor vehicle on the Chatham Islands with a crowd of onlookers; at centre, two community figures; at right, a circular vignette of the Chatham Islands black robin. Corner medallions bear '2000' and '$3'. |
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The Chatham Islands Note Corporation was a private enterprise, not a government body — these notes had no legal tender status and were never intended for circulation. The "Millennium First Note" concept leaned on the Chatham Islands' position in UTC+12:45, which placed them among the first inhabited territories to enter the year 2000, a fact heavily marketed to collectors at the time.
Timely Marketing & Promotions Limited, responsible for the printing across Christchurch and Dunedin, was not a security printer. The notes are essentially commemorative novelties on cotton substrate, produced to satisfy millennium souvenir demand rather than any monetary function.