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50 Cents - Charles III Fuller Portrait - Water Taniwha
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Obverse lettering | CHARLES III · NEW ZEALAND .999 Ag 1oz 2025 |
| Reverse description | A highly detailed and intricately engraved depiction of the Taniwha, a powerful supernatural water creature from Māori mythology, portrayed emerging dynamically from swirling, stylised waves rendered in an elaborate koru-inspired scroll pattern that fills the entire field. The creature's sinuous body, textured scales, and flowing appendages are rendered with exceptional relief, conveying movement and mythological power. The legend TANIWHA · FIFTY CENTS arcs along the upper periphery in a restrained sans-serif typeface. |
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New Zealand's taniwha occupy a specific place in Māori cosmology as guardians of waterways — not monsters in the Western sense, but beings whose presence in a river or harbor carries genuine jurisdictional weight in Treaty-based resource negotiations. Several infrastructure projects in Aotearoa have been formally delayed or rerouted following consultation with iwi over taniwha boundaries, most notably a state highway project near Ngāruawāhia in the early 2000s. The "Fuller Portrait" of Charles III, by sculptor Martin Jennings, was adopted by several Commonwealth realms after the effigy by Jody Clark was deemed insufficiently refined for coinage.