1982 - New Zealand - BU Mint Set Takehe Bird

1982 - New Zealand - BU Mint Set (Takehe Bird)

Features

Issuer	New Zealand
Mint	Royal Mint
Year	1982
Issued quantity	25 000
Number	N# S2452
References	KM# MS28 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

Description

This 1982 BU Set of coins was minted by The Royal Mint in Llantrisant and issued by the New Zealand Government Treasury. It was issued in a blue plastic wallet.

The set contains six standard definitive coins. 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c & 50c.

The NCLT $1 coin is commemorating the flightless Takahe bird which can only be found in New Zealand. They are the size of a large chicken, have blue and green feathers and a red bill. Takahes eat tender grass stalks, bugs and fern roots. By the 1900s, people believed these birds were extinct.

This NCLT $1 coin has the G.J. Berry Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.

1 Cent - Elizabeth II (2nd portrait) KM# 31.1, 31.2, N# 1846
1982 – KM# 31.1 – (en) BU Year Set (round tipped 2)
2 Cents - Elizabeth II (2nd portrait) KM# 32.1, 32.2, N# 5215
1982 – KM# 32.1 – (en) BU Year Set (pointed tight 2)
5 Cents - Elizabeth II (2nd portrait) KM# 34.1, 34.2, Schön# 38, Y# 38, N# 1123
1982 – KM# 34.1 – (en) BU Year Set (pointed 2 in date)
10 Cents - Elizabeth II (2nd portrait) KM# 41.1, 41.2, etc., N# 2330
1982 – KM# 41.1 – (en) BU Year Set (point-tipped "2")
20 Cents - Elizabeth II (2nd portrait) KM# 36.1, 36.2, N# 2331
1982 – KM# 36.1 – (en) BU Year Set (pointed 2)
50 Cents - Elizabeth II (2nd portrait) KM# 37.1, 37.2, Schön# 37.1, N# 3915
1982 – KM# 37.1 – (en) BU Year Set, pointed end of 2, Llantrisant Mint
1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (Berry Portrait; Takahe Bird) KM# 51, N# 15501
1982 – KM# 51 – (en) BU Year Set