5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait, Sheep fleece

New Zealand's $5 coin denomination had a short and largely unloved run. Introduced in 1990, it was withdrawn from circulation in 2006 after persistent public complaints that it was too easily confused with the $2 coin and offered poor value for its bulk. The sheep reverse tied the coin explicitly to the pastoral export economy that had defined New Zealand's national income for over a century — wool alone accounted for the majority of export earnings well into the postwar decades, though by 1998 that dominance had long since collapsed under competition from synthetics.