These pages show the different types of circulating coins produced in New Zealand. My target audience is not so much the serious numismatist, but more the novice and casual collector. Coins can be collected in various manners: coins for circulation versus coins for collectors, individual coins versus sets or rolls, circulated coins versus mint state, every date and mint mark versus major types. This Web site presents information to help with assembling a "type" collection of individual circulated New Zealand coins. What is "type" collecting? Type collecting is assembling coins of different designs. A type set generally excludes minor variations that include the same basic design. Examples are date change, and mint marks. Major variations in coin composition (such as a switch from 80% silver to copper-nickel) constitute a type change, but a minor variation (such as 0.925 silver to 0.500 silver) do not represent a type change. Different collectors will have their own opinions of what coins should be included in a type collection. The following is my interpretation of significant year-to-year changes in New Zealand circulating coins. Half Penny Starting with 1940-1947 One Penny Starting with 1940-1947 Three Pence Starting with 1933-1936 Six Pence Starting with 1933-1936 One Shilling Starting with 1933-1935 One Florin Starting with 1933-1936 One Crown Starting with 1935 Half Crown Starting with 1933-1935 One Cent Starting with 1967-1985 Two Cent Starting with 1967-1985 Five Cents Starting with 1967-1985 Ten Cents Starting with 1967-1969 Twenty Cents Starting with 1967-1985 Fifty Cents Starting with 1967-1985 One Dollar Starting with 1990-1991 Two Dollars Starting with 1990-1991

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