Artefact
Artefact
Credit Line
Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2015.49.1
Gift of Otis Yancey
Primary Maker
Place
Date
2015
Associated Notes
ANZAC centennial commemorative 50 cent coin 2015
Coin commemorates the ANZACs on Gallipoli. It is New Zealand’s first commemorative circulating coin and the first New Zealand circulating coin to have colour applied to it.
Note a commemorative circulating note was produced in 1990 to mark the Sesquicentenary of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, see 2015.29.8
Associated Event
Centenary of the First World War
Associated Place
Period
Signature/marks
"NEW ZEALAND ELIZABETH II / IRB / 2015"
"THE SPIRIT OF ANZAC : WE WILL REMEMBER THEM : 50 CENTS"
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Last Update
15 May 2023
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