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[labellementeuse]

Also, and importantly: Goodbye 5c coin, hello... new, shiny, much, much smaller ten, twenty and fifty cent pieces!



And the 10c has a bronze finish now, too.

omfg this is actually sort of exciting?

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[semiramis.livejournal.com]

...your coinage looks so much prettier than ours omg.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

XD Taniwha on the 10c, pukaki on the 20, the HMS Endeavour (captain cook's ship) on the 50.. I guess they are kind of pretty (we have elizabeth II on the other sides, of course.) My favourite is the $2, though; it has the kotuku (white heron) on in.

I'm not ashamed to admit I think our banknotes are prettier, too... and they have cooler people on them. *brags* Earnest Rutherford, Apirana Ngata (early Maori politician & first Maori university graduate), QEII... okay, she's not so special... Kate Sheppard (suffragette) & Edmund Hillary. And on the other side we have birds. XD pictures here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_dollar)

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I preferred the kiwi on the 20c

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

So did I, to be honest. But the kiwi's still on the $1, so it's not like we're really losing anything...

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

it's not like we're really losing anything...

The tuatara.


My only problem with the new money...

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

You're so right. :(

[semiramis.livejournal.com]

What's Taniwha and pukaki? *ignorant*

Pretty... 8O wtf, wikipedia, why don't you have bigger pictures? D:

Haha... yeah, QEII is on like every third country's paper money.

Also, Americans are, like, allergic to colorful paper money, I swear. Every time they introduce some new gimmick, like the shiny security thingers, everyone's like, WTF IT LOOKS LIKE MONOPOLY $'S! Which is so much worse than making it secure. And pretty 8D

Although the Happy Mao trick is even funnier on Abe Lincoln and George Washington. Because they don't smile, ever, at all.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

A taniwha is kind of like a monster, I guess? Um, they live in caves or rivers or pools, usually associated with water in some way. Um, they're really kind of difficult to explain. Maori legends, anyway. here's the wiki page. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taniwha)

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

While I'm opposed to pretty much all symbols of nationality on principle, I think our money is especially ugly. There's something uninspiring about money with a little seethrough panel. And, if the aesthetics don't appeal, it's worth noting it was designed to be like Australian money.

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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

sucks to be you. I like it!

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[amarynth.livejournal.com]

Nah, sucks to be you, mystified by bourgeois nationalism. But I expect you'll get by OK. :-D

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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's intrinsically nationalist to like the appearance of our money, or even to like Kate Sheppard. It may be nationalistic to be proud of the fact that she's on our money but I so don't care. :)

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[amarynth.livejournal.com]

Well, I do agree that something can be distasteful conceptually but aesthetically pleasant. I'm fond of the French national anthem even though it's one of the most bombastically flag-waving ones, simply because it has a good beat. But our paper money is a case where intellectual and aesthetic distaste coincide. Our coins I don't find so unpleasant, but it's hard to make coins look really unpleasant.

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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

See, I understand the dislike of nationalism, and even agree to an extent. I can understand disliking the concept of money. But I really don't get disliking the actual paper money. *shrug*

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[amarynth.livejournal.com]

I don't dislike the existence of money - I'm an anti capitalist but not to the extent I think we should barter.

One of the main things I dislike about nationalism is the need to hammer our 'heritage' into us at every turn with symbols, images and other memes that are supposed to connect us to our 'national identity'. And putting a bunch of famous New Zealanders on our money is one of the most effective ways this is done. Not that I don't have respect (if varying levels of it) for people like Apirana Ngata, Kate Shepherd, Ernie Rutherford and, yes, even Sir Hillary, but they don't deserve to be made into propaganda tools.

Ironically, I probably object to the Queen's presence there the least, since her presence on the money is related to an actual, definable legal relationship with the institution that issues the money, not due to a shared citizenship.

[mandor700.livejournal.com]

What I quite like is that we now buy all our currency off Canada.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

hehe, I saw that too! Awesome.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

I saw my first new money yesterday at 360. It's so shiny and wee. I don't think I'll be able to handle how little it is :/

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

I love the new money! I agree thats its tiny and feels like toy money that you should be able to snap, but I love it!

Hooray new money!