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The second highest denomination of our New Zealand banknotes in circulation in this issue is the NZ$50 banknote. The previous content has been introduced to the NZD 5, 10, 20 and 100 banknotes, and this NZ$50 is left.
New Zealand's $50 note is also one of New Zealand's "big bills". The frequency of use is not very high, and the exchange rate is about 230 yuan according to the current exchange rate.
My copy is a new version, released in May 2016. The new version of the $50 banknote is the same size as the old version, but the color change is larger than that of other denominations, the current version of the old NZD 50 banknote has a reddish and pink color, warmer color, and the new version of the 50 NZD banknote has a purple color, blue in the middle, and a cooler color system.
Old version 50 front old version 50 front
Old version 50 on the back
The main pattern on the front and back of the banknote has not changed, and the design feature uses a more funny sentence to describe the overall characteristics of the New Zealand banknote, that is, "a person on the front and a bird on the back".
The positive figure was Sir Apirana Ngata (born 3 July 1874 in Kavaka, New Zealand, died 14 July 1950, waimatatini), who was the political and cultural leader of the Maori community in New Zealand. He was a major force in improving the government's policy towards Māori in the early 20th century.
Ngata earned a law degree in 1897, becoming the first Māori graduate of a New Zealand university and briefly served as a lawyer before becoming active in the nationalist Young Māori Party. In 1905, he began a 39-year term among members of Parliament representing the Eastern Māori Constituency. He was knighted in 1927 and served as Minister of the Interior from 1928 to 1934.
In 1931, Ngata presented his Māori land development plan, which improved the quality of agriculture for his people and expanded the amount of Māori land cultivated. His efforts to improve Māori access to education include the establishment of the Māori Purposes Fund to finance school construction.
Committed to the preservation of Maori culture, Ngata helped set up the Maori Ethnographic Research Council.
To the left of the front is a Maori signature pattern from the Poruangi Synagogue in New Zealand, which means the straight road to heaven.
The building between the portrait on the front of the $50 New Zealand banknote and the Maori motif is the Poruangi Synagogue, which was built in 1888 and is of great significance to the Maori family of New Zealand, the Ngata.
The motif on the left half of the back of the banknote is a sky blue mushroom in New Zealand, Sky-blue mushroom, scientific name Entoloma hochstetteri (scientific name: Entoloma hochstetteri), is it poisonous? I don't know, at present, people who dare to try to eat it have not been poisoned, but still no one eats it. You may remember very deeply that "the more colorful the mushroom, the more toxic it is." To this day, people are quite interested in why it can grow blue, because natural blue food coloring is very difficult to find.
To the right of the blue mushroom, there is a beautiful natural scenery, the forest is reflected in the water, this is located in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand, the area of 760 square kilometers of Priora Forest Park Pureora Forest Park, it is one of the largest complete primary forests of the North Island, due to the rich diversity of plants and animal habitats, so the park has a high conservation value. New Zealand's largest peach garnet pine is located on private land near the park. It is also the largest habitat of the New Zealand crowned crow Kōkako on New Zealand's North Island.
The most important position on the back of the $50 note is reserved for the New Zealand crown crow Kōkako, which looks like a crow, has a blue "hat" hence the name "crown crow", its call is very large, its body is gray, and its small face is black. The South Island of New Zealand once had a crowned crow with an orange hat, but it is now thought to be extinct.
There are also other design elements on the banknotes, such as silver leaf ferns. Cyathea dealbata is a fern that grows in New Zealand. New Zealand is a treasure trove of ferns, and many ferns can grow even the size of trees, with the silver leaf fern being one of them. Silver leaf fern can reach a height of more than 10 meters, its leaves can reach 4 meters in length, and the back is silvery, hence the name.
The silver leaf fern is an object of worship for Maori people because of its white leaves and is also one of the symbols of New Zealand, which is the constituent pattern of the new Zealand national emblem. Both Air New Zealand aircraft and New Zealand passports have silver leaf ferns on them.
The text on the banknotes consists of two official languages of New Zealand, English and Maori.
The anti-counterfeiting design of the new version of new Zealand plastic banknotes is brighter and bolder, more secure and innovative, and the use of transparent holographic windows and brilliant light change inks has reached the world's leading level. Let's take a look at them one by one.
The printing pattern of the New Zealand crown crow in the lower left corner of the front of the banknote is printed by OVMI optical gradient magnetic ink, rotating the banknote against the light, and a yellow anti-counterfeiting reflective tape through the bird's body will appear on the body of the yellow-headed finch, and the tilted banknote will turn. Since this position has a transparent effect, the silver leaf fern pattern on the back also has a light change effect. This is a highlight of this banknote.
To the right of the banknote is a large transparent window with a complex border with a metal holographic security strip, from top to bottom: metal denomination number 50 and crown crow, New Zealand map and fern, denomination number 50 with 3D effect, and colorless embossed denomination number 50 at the bottom. These elements are complex but not messy.
In addition, there are printing patterns, colorless fluorescent numbers 50, and so on.
The above content is a brief introduction to the face design and anti-counterfeiting technology of New Zealand's highest 100 yuan plastic banknote, thank you friends for watching, if you have any views on this banknote, welcome to leave a comment.
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