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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2016-2018 |
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| Size | 155 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Lord Ernest Rutherford of Nelson at centre-right, with a vignette of his Nobel Prize medal at left, set against a geometric guilloche underprint incorporating a mohua (yellowhead) bird motif. The large numeral '100' appears in red at lower centre, while a transparent polymer window at right carries a fern motif and the repeated denomination. Bilingual inscriptions in English and te reo Māori run across the upper register. |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic landscape vignette of the Eglinton Valley, South Island, rendered in muted greens and blues, occupies the central field. A mohua (yellowhead) perches on a red beech branch at left, with a South Island lichen moth at upper left, both set within a multicoloured guilloche underprint border. The bilingual country name is inscribed at upper right. |
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New Zealand's fifth series polymer notes, introduced from 2015 onward, were printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa — a long-standing arrangement that has supplied New Zealand's higher denominations since the polymer transition. The $100 sits at the top of the circulating series and consequently sees lower everyday turnover than the $50, meaning used examples in genuinely worn condition are less common than with smaller denominations.
The transparent window on this issue incorporates a laser-fern element unique to New Zealand's series, a deliberate nod to national identity worked into the security architecture rather than applied as an afterthought.