Disappointing Coinage
The designs of New Zealand’s first decimal coins are disappointing. Making generous allowance for the fact that a flat sketch can seldom do justice to a three-dimensional coin, with the effect that an appropriate metal can add, these designs cannot, by the wildest stretch of imagination, be described as inspiring. The image they project is one of a foot-ball-playing peasantry. None of the six coins suggests New Zealand has a single factory, university, orchestra, aeroplane, or Parliament. They might just as easily have been designed to decorate the coinage of 1867 as 1967. Some of the designs have to be redrawn to make them suitable for minting; it is not too late, therefor? to substitute several new designs, more in keeping with the New Zealand of the twentieth century.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 12
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131Disappointing Coinage Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 12
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