New Zealand Two-dollar Note

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 New Zealand pound, £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 The note was withdrawn from circulation along with the New Zealand one-dollar note, one-dollar note in 1991, replaced by the New Zealand one-dollar coin, one- and New Zealand two-dollar coin, 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), rifleman bird (''Acanthisitta chloris'', (), and flowers of Peraxilla tetrapetala, red mistletoe (''Peraxilla tetrapetala'', Māori: ).

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Banknotes of New Zealand
1991 disestablishments in New Zealand
1967 establishments in New Zealand
Two-base-unit banknotes

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