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8 Dollars - Millennium First Note
| Issuer | Chatham Islands Note Corporation |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 8 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in full polychrome offset with a dominant warm-toned scenic vignette occupying the central field, illustrating ancestral Moriori and Maori figures — described as 'Woytek's Generations / The Ancestors' — set against a vivid sunrise sky over Pitt Island (Mt Hakepa), with inscriptions referencing 'A New Dawn with the Spring Symphony & Guardians of Mt Hakepa, Pitt Island' and 'Caring for Each Other and Our World'. A circular cartouche to the right contains a geographic map of the Chatham Islands group noting coordinates 44° South Latitude and 176° West Longitude. The dark green engraved border features scrollwork, palm-tree vignettes, and denomination counters '$8' in the lower corners, with the issuer name 'CHATHAM ISLANDS NOTE CORPORATION' along the base. |
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| Protection type | Hologram |
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| Comments |
The Chatham Islands Note Corporation is a private entity, not a government central bank — the Chatham Islands themselves are a New Zealand territory with no independent monetary authority. These notes were issued as legal-tender novelties under a licensing arrangement, with the $8 denomination chosen purely for collectibility: eight carries auspicious connotations in Chinese commercial culture, a nod to the anticipated Pacific Rim collector market.
Chan Wanich in Bangkok printed the majority of its output for smaller Pacific island jurisdictions and commemorative programs during this period. The hologram strip here is largely a marketing feature; actual circulation was never the intent.