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New Zealand banknotes
New Zealand paper money catalog and New Zealand currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Pound = 20 Shillings = 240 Pence, till 1967
  • Dollar = (0.50 pound) = 100 cents, from 1967

• New Zealand currency is used :
  • Cook Islands
  • Chatham Islands
  • Niue and Tokelau, Pitcairn Island, Ross

• To purchase New Zealand banknotes, please check our inventory :
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Pick #	Date
		State
154-7	1934	10 shillings, 1, 5, 50 pounds
158-62	(1940)	10 shillings, 1, 5, 10, 50 pounds
163-8	(1967)	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 100 $
169-75	(1981)	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $
176	1990	10 $; commemorative issue "Treaty of Waitangi, 1840-1990"
177-81	(1992)	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $
182-3	(1994)	10, 20 $
184	1996	20 $; commemorative issue "70 Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II"
185-9	(1999)	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $
190	1990	10 $; commemorative issue "Millennium"
191-	(20)15	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $

		NEW ZEALAND PRIVATE BANKS
		- Bank of Aotearoa
s101	1894	1 Pauna
		- Bank of Auckland
s104-8	1865-8	1, 1, 10 Pounds
		- Bank of Australasia
s111-5A	1863-74	1, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
s116-21	1885-1923	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
s131-6	1923-32	10 Shillings, 1, 1, 5, 10, 50 Pounds
		- Bank of New South Wales
s139	1844	1 Pound
s141-4	1861-2	1, 5, 10, 20 Pounds
s146-9	1870	1, 5, 10, 20 Pounds
s150-9	1890-1922	5, 10, 10, 10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Pounds
s161-5	1923-4	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 20 Pounds
		- Bank of New Zealand
s171	1861	1 Pound
s176-7	1861-2	1, 5 Pounds
s181-4	(1862)	1, 5, 10, 20 Pounds
s191-6	1870-1929	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Pounds
s201	18--	1 Pound (proof)
s202	1888-98	1 Pound
s206	1898-1903	1 Pound
s212-3	1901	1, 100 Pounds
s215	1916-8	10 Shillings
s221	1916-24	5, 10, 10, 10 Shillings, 1, 1, 5, 5, 10, 10 Pounds
s231-40	1924-32	10, 10 Shillings, 1, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Pounds
		- Bank of Otago
s241-4	1864-78	1, 5, 10, 20 Pounds
		- Colonial Bank of New Zealand
s246-7	1850-6	1, 5 Pound
s251	1874	1 Pound
s262-6	1875-86	1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
s267-70	1888-95	1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
		- Commercial Bank of Australia
s270A-76	1914-9	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 100, 1.000 Pounds
s277-80B	1919-24	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 Pounds
s281-6	1926-9	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 Pounds
		- Commercial Bank of New Zealand
s288-90	1865-6	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Pounds
		- National Bank of New Zealand
s291-5	1873-7	1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
s296-300	(1877)	1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
s306-11	1910-23	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
s316-21	1925-33	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
		- New Zealand Banking Company
s326-7	(1840)	1, 5 Pounds
		- New Zealand Banking Corporation
s331	1865	1 Pound
		- Oriental Banking Corporation
s333-35A	(1840)	1, 5, 10, 20 Pounds
		- Otago Banking Company
s336-8	(1851)	10 Shillings, 1, 5 Pounds
		- Union Bank of Australia
s341	1840-42	1 Pound
s346-9	1852-60	1, 5, 10, 20 Pounds
s351-3	1861-78	1, 5, 10 Pounds
s356-9	1878-1904	1, 5, 10, 20 Pounds
s361-6	1905-20	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds
s371-6	1923	10 Shillings, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 Pounds