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Issue For Staff Training "The Press" Special Service WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. For Is 6d you can now buy 100 samples of New Zealand dollar notes. But if you attempt to tender one at a store the likely reaction from the shopkeeper would be: “You must be joking!” It’s funny money, imitations—the notes are not in the least bit genuine for trading purposes. They’ve been issued by the Decimal Currency Board mainly for the use of firms with staff training programmes for next year’s currency switch. The fact that they are going on the market at the same time that the real notes have arrived here from England under the tightest security screens was described by a D.C.B. spokesman as “purely co-incidental.”
He added that the funny money was as near as possible in size to the real notes and the colours were almost the same.
The 100-dollar Is red, the 20 green, the 10 dark blue, the five orange, the two purple, and the one brown. The board has printed 1,600,000 of the notes. If the money was real that would be worth about 16,000,000 dollars.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 20
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188SAMPLE NOTES Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 20
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