New Zealand twenty-cent coin

Twenty cents
New Zealand
Value0.20 New Zealand dollars
Mass4.00 g
Diameter21.75 mm
Thickness1.56 mm
Edge"Spanish flower"
CompositionNickel-plated steel
Years of minting2006–present
Catalog number
Obverse
DesignQueen Elizabeth II
DesignerIan Rank-Broadley
Design date1999
Reverse
DesignMāori carving of Pukaki, a chief of the Ngāti Whakaue iwi
DesignerRobert Maurice Conly
Design date1990

The New Zealand twenty-cent coin is the second-lowest-denomination coin of the New Zealand dollar. The 20-cent coin was introduced when the New Zealand dollar was introduced on 10 July 1967, replacing the New Zealand florin coin. Its original reverse of a kiwi was changed in 1990 when the image was moved onto the one-dollar coin. In 2006 its size was reduced and its edge altered to a Spanish flower as part of a revision of New Zealand's coins, which also saw its alloy become nickel-plated steel instead of cupro-nickel.


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