Talk:New Zealand dollar

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Contents 1 Pictures 2 weight 3 CI Currency 4 In the interests of public relations 5 New Coins 6 Coin back

[edit] Pictures

Hey, is it legal to have scans of currency on here? Crusadeonilliteracy 14:26, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Well, if they can't be mistaken for real ones, I think it's legal. I got them from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand website (which allows use of its contents), and the website says that you can reproduce banknotes provided provided it's not similar enough "to be likely to be confused with or mistaken for" a real one. It further specifies that anything less than three quarters the size of a real note is probably okay. Since the little ones are probably more like a fifth of the actual size, I think they should be okay, but I don't know about the larger one at the bottom. As an electronic image is unlikely to be mistaken for a real one, I think it's probably okay, but I could be wrong. -- Vardion 06:31, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Legal or not, don't you think that the pictures are too small? Jimp 16Nov05

Any ony have image of the old $1 and $2 notes to add for historical referance? roguebfl

[edit] weight

(approximate)

5c : 2g
10c : 6g
20c : 10g
50c : 14g
$1 : 8g 
$2 : 10g

Not sure where to put this, so I’ll leave it for someone who edits this more often. porges 21:11, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Also: this page should have a mention of the "millenium" $10 note.

I added the weight of the coins to the coin table as another column. Evil Monkey∴Hello 21:28, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CI Currency

Someone added a link to de with images of various CI banknotes - but are these considered NZD? At one point, the Cook Islands tried to have their own currency but if I recall correctly, some shady deal not entirely unlike a nigerian scam took the entire currency out. I'm wondering if these images are from this short lived period - not current issue. I've never heard of them being legal tender in NZ at any rate. Tenbaset 05:39, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

According to this page, they still have their own notes. Reading a bit further on various other pages, I suspect that both regular New Zealand notes and local Cook Islands notes are in use in the islands (and that the local Cook Islands notes are only legal tender in the Cook Islands). According to this page, the local notes are being phased out in favour of New Zealand ones. The notes pictured are (I think) the same that were in use when the islands had a separate currency, so I would speculate that when they abandoned that currency, they simply declared that the existing notes would count as New Zealand dollars until they could be replaced by the real thing. I could be quite wrong, of course. -- Vardion 09:17, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] In the interests of public relations

Says the article:

Some larger retailers (notably one supermarket chain), in the interests of public relations, 
elected to round the total price down (so that $4.99 becomes $4.95 instead of $5.00). 

Surely the real reason for this was the same as the reason for setting the price to $4.99 rather than $5.00 in the first place. They do it simply to make the product seem less expensive. Jimp 16Nov05

needs sourcing. And this article needs to reflect that the changes have happened --219.89.236.186 08:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I suspect that just possibly one minor reason why people set a price for 4.95 instead of 4.99 is that people are catching onto the .99 trick... lol Mathmo 16:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Coins

Article needs updating with the new coins brought into circulation back in July. I've taken and uploaded some reasonable pictures of the new coins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_Zealand_10_cent_coin.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_Zealand_20_cent_coin.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_Zealand_50_cent_coin.jpg --SteveNZ 08:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Now, as it has been almost a week since demonitization of the old coins, I think the old info should be completely removed, or at least put sepate so people know which set of coins is being talked about. 67.172.125.13 05:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

The 1997 mint of the $2 was thiner than it should have been causing problems with vending machines and it was supposed to be recalled. It's still legal tender.

[edit] Coin back

We need a picture of the Queen's potrait on the back of the coins. We should have both examples currently in circulation (since the $1 and $2 coins will have some with the new 1999 potrait, and some with the 1986 potrait). I personally don't think we should remove the info of the old coins but moving to a seperate article might be wise. Ideally, we should also aim for examples of the two other queens potraits that were used with the old coins Nil Einne 15:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree that info on old coins should not be removed only because they are removed from circulation. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 18:04, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

203.184.53.134 04:33, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand now no longer has 5 cent coins. They started being taken out of circulation in October 2006 and now are completely gone.

So what's the problem? Is there any false statement in the article? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 06:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)