2 Dollars Millennium First Note; Chatham Islands

2 Dollars (Millennium First Note; Chatham Islands) - obverse2 Dollars (Millennium First Note; Chatham Islands) - reverse

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Features

Location New Zealand
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Paper exonumia › Fantasy banknote
Year 1999
Value 2 Dollars
Size 154 × 65 mm
Shape Rectangular
Number
N#
227067

Commemorative issue

Third Millennium

Obverse

Design based on U.S. dollar bill; lettering around edges; head of a Chatham Island Taiko, or Magenta Petrel to right, facing right; multi-coloured guilloche is in the center of the note and to the left of the guilloche is a map of the Chatham Islands. At the far left is a round, holographic foil stamp and below the stamp is the text ‘3rd’, which denotes the beginning of the third millennium of the Christian era. Signed by Clint McInnes as ‘Director of the Corporation’ and John Day as ‘Secretary of the Treasury’.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
MILLENNIUM FIRST NOTE
MILLENNIUM CHATHAM ISLANDS MILLENNIUM
2000 NEW ZEALAND 2000
NOTE THIS NOTE IS NEGOTIABLE TENDER [serial number] OTE
ON THE CHATHAM ISLANDS FOR THE
MILLENNIUM YEAR 2000
LIMITED COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE
TWO
DOLLARS
TWO HUNDRED CENTS
3RD SERIES
2000 1999 2000
Issued by the Chatham A CHATHAM ISLAND TAIKO
Islands Note Corporation
FIRST TO SEE THE SUN

Reverse

Lettering in green border around edges; colored lobster on left of grayscale image of the sea; faint image of Chatham Island robin in circle to right; palm tree at each edge.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
2000 TWO CHATHAM DOLLARS 2000
THE SEA
INAUGURATION OF THE
$2 CHATHAM ISLANDS NOTE CORPORATION $2
TIMELY MARKETING & PROMOTIONS LIMITED, CHRISTCHURCH & DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND

Comments

Note was part of series issued to commemorate the Millennium. Notes were legal tender during the year 2000.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1999  22 600

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