Mint Decimal Coin Sets Ordered

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31139, 16 August 1966, Page 12

Mint Decimal Coin Sets Ordered

The Press" Special Service

WELLINGTON, August 15

Orders have been placed with the Royal Mint in London for 150,000 sets of New Zealand’s new decimal coins in mint or “uncirculated” condition, and for a further 50,000 special polished sets.

Announcing this, the Par-: liamentary Under-Secretary i to the Minister of Finance (Mr Muldoon) said the uncirculated sets were expected to arrive in New Zealand by I next May. They will be available to collectors in a special folder, as were the 1965 £ s. d. souvenir sets. The sets will include the six coins in ordinary use, 50-cent, 20-cent, 10-

•Icent, 5-cent, 2-cent, 1-cent, •land the commemorative dol- : i lar. The 50,000 polished sets 1 are scheduled for delivery in • New Zealand from next July. Orders have also been placed > for 300,000 commemorative , dollar coins in uncirculated ■ condition, which will be sold ■ separately. Prices of the coin sets and - the commemorative dollar are not yet available. Orders will be accepted by the Treasury from next February. It is anticipated that sales of uncirculated coin sets and the "loose” commemorative dollars will also be arranged through the branches of the Post Office and banks.