Country: | New Zealand |
Denomination: | Two dollars |
Value: | 2 |
Unit: | New Zealand dollars |
Paper Type: | Cotton-based paper |
Years Of Printing: | 1967–1991 |
Obverse: | New Zealand 2 dollar note obverse series 4.jpg |
Obverse Design: | Queen Elizabeth II |
Obverse Design Date: | 1967, updated portrait 1981 |
Reverse: | New Zealand 2 dollar note reverse series 4.jpg |
Reverse Design: | Rifleman and mistletoe flowers |
Reverse Design Date: | 1967 |
The New Zealand two-dollar note was a banknote of the New Zealand dollar in circulation from 1967 until 1991.
The note introduced on 10 July 1967, replacing the £1 note. In 1981, the fourth series of banknotes were released with minor drawing changes and a portrait update of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse. The note was withdrawn from circulation along with the one-dollar note in 1991, replaced by the one- and two-dollar coins released the previous year.
The two-dollar note featured Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse, and New Zealand native species on the reverse: the rifleman bird (Acanthisitta chloris, (Maori: titipounamu), and flowers of red mistletoe (Peraxilla tetrapetala, Māori: Maori: roeroe).[1]