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Australia
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Do anyone have any information about where all of New Zealand's circulating currency has been struck? I'm guessing that all the pre-decimal stuff was handled by The Royal Mint, London. Some of decimal stuff was too I think, but I don't know how long that persisted and where it was continued. |
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United States
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New Zealand banknotes were first printed by Thomas De La Rue And Company Limited, London. And continued with this printer up to and including the 3rd issue in 1967. In 1979 the Reserve Bank put the next year's note order out to international tender. The contract went to Bradbury Wilkinson and Company (NZ) Ltd. They changed printers with the 4th issue in 1981. When they switched to polymer notes in the late 90's they were printed by Note Printing Australia
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United States
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I know that much of the decimal currency was struck by the following: Royal Australian Mint, Canberra British Royal Mint, Llantrisant Royal Canadian Mint, Ottawa or Winnipeg The 1996-1997 circulating 5 and 10 Cents issues were struck at (of all places) the Norwegian Mint in Kongsberg. Also, the 1999 5 Cents issue was struck at the South African Mint in Pretoria. Hope this helps somewhat! |
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Australia
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I don't think that New Zealand has ever minted coins for use as circulating currency in New Zealand. That means that it is all contracted out to other mints around the World. A minor technical exception is that some tokens that circulated may have been struck in New Zealand. I would guess that The Royal Mint would have handled most of the NZ Government's requirements, and that would mean all of the .500 silver pre decimal currency. I know that both the RAM and the RCM have handled orders for NZ circulating decimal currency. I do not know what particular issues were handled by by what mint. There is an organization called New Zealand Mint that does mint bullion coins. I am almost sure that they have never minted coins for circulation. Having just read the above links, they have stated the details more accurately than I have. Edited by sel_69l
06/15/2012 9:46 pm
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Thanks everyone, I've (hopefully) got all the decimal information I'm looking for. Can anyone confirm that it was The Royal Mint, London that handled all the pre-decimal coins? |
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United States
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Thank you for this information. I have buying up New Zealand decimal proof and uncirculated sets at nice prices and noticed all the different types of packaging to go along with New Zealand's wonderful coins.
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I realize this thread is six months old, but... Quote:Can anyone confirm that it was The Royal Mint, London that handled all the pre-decimal coins? Yes. All predecimal NZ coins were struck in The Royal Mint, London. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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A minor technical exception is that some tokens that circulated may have been struck in New Zealand.
Most( if not all) NZ tokens ( 19th century) were struck in either Australia or Birmingham |
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Israel
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I have a first issue of the decimal Polished Standard Specimen Coins issued on 10 July 1967. They were minted by The Royal Mint London |
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Australia
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Thank you for this information. I have buying up New Zealand decimal proof and uncirculated sets at nice prices and noticed all the different types of packaging to go along with New Zealand's wonderful coins I think the coins in sets may have slight differences to circulation coins, just for reference. Quote:Yes. All predecimal NZ coins were struck in The Royal Mint, London. Thanks for the confirmation Sap. I've since purchased a few books which told me this but I guess I forgot to report back here. |
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Australia
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Just to confuse things for you Mt is that not only NZ coins official circulating currency but also British and Australian coins as well. The most recent example was in 1966 when NZ imported 50 million (IIRC) Australian pennies (that had been withdrawn after decimalisation) and filled a shortfall in NZ predecimal small change.
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Tell us more. I know NZ brought in its own currency in 1933 due to the problems of money smuggling to Aussi. Prior to 1933 NZ used British coin and it was worth more in Aussie than it was in NZ hence the smuggling problem. I hadn't heard of the Aussi small change in the 1960s
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Australia
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In 1920 Great Britain debased their silver coinage from .925 fine to .500 fine.
Australia did not, and retained her silver coinage at .925. Despite this, the British coinage had a favourable exchange rate, probably due to the fact that the Pound Sterling was the World's foremost reserve currency at the time.
During the period 1920 to 1933, before the first NZ coins circulated you could buy more Australian .925 coins at face value for the British .500 coins, that were circulating in New Zealand.
With this situation, it is not hard to see why coin smuggling would be a problem.
Latter day roll searchers born into that period would have had a field day before being caught! I guess some of them were.
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Just to confuse things for you Mt is that not only NZ coins official circulating currency but also British and Australian coins as well. The most recent example was in 1966 when NZ imported 50 million (IIRC) Australian pennies (that had been withdrawn after decimalisation) and filled a shortfall in NZ predecimal small change. Yeah I read that recently. Thankfully where Australian and British coins were struck is (mostly) known. |
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