2005 - New Zealand - BU Mint Set Fiordland Crested Penguin

2005 - New Zealand - BU Mint Set (Fiordland Crested Penguin)

Features

Issuer	New Zealand
Issuing entity	Poste néo-zélandaise
Mint	Royal Australian Mint
Year	2005
Issued quantity	3000
Number	N# S2571
References	KM# MS58 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

Description

This 2005 BU Set of coins was minted by The Royal Australian Mint in Canberra and issued by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand & New Zealand Post. The set was packaged in a blister type folding coincard and was inserted in a slipcase.

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

The NCLT $5 coin is celebrating the Fiordland Crested Penguin, it is a crested penguin species endemic to New Zealand. It currently breeds along the south-western coasts of New Zealand's South Island as well as on Stewart Island/Rakiura and its outlying islands.