Catalog
50 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2016-2021 |
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| Printer | Note Printing Australia |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Sir Apirana Ngata at right centre against a guilloche underprint in purple and orange tones, with a vignette of a Māori meeting house (wharenui) at centre-left and a stylised huia bird in green and black at lower left. The large denomination numeral '50' is positioned at lower centre, while a vertical windowed security stripe at right incorporates a colour-shifting kokako, silver fern, and map of New Zealand motif within the transparent polymer substrate. The Governor's signature appears above the meeting house vignette, with bilingual authority inscriptions running across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND TE PŪTEA MATUA THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR FIFTY DOLLARS SIR APIRANA NGATA GOVERNOR |
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New Zealand's polymer series, introduced from 1999 onward, was produced by Note Printing Australia — a deliberate trans-Tasman arrangement that has remained largely unchanged through multiple design generations. The 2016 update to this series brought enhanced security elements rather than a wholesale redesign, retaining the vertical striped window and updated colour-shifting ink to counter improving counterfeiting technology.
The $50 denomination is statistically one of the higher-value notes most frequently encountered in everyday cash transactions in New Zealand, which means genuine wear on circulated examples is common and expected.