2001 Chatham Islands $50.00

I recently returned to NZ and accessed some of my collection that is stored there. Here is one of the rarer items I brought back to Vienna. It was produced for the millennium celebrations. The committee producing these coins had successfully gained permission to produce paper notes, they erroneously thought that permission extended to coins. When the Reserve bank of New Zealand found out about the coins they seized them( and, I believe, the dies) not more than 25 examples escaped. I have one of them. I have subsequently had it confirmed that the Reserve Bank of NZ will not try to take this coin off me( otherwise I wouldn't be posting it here).