On Some Days

By V1k1

She Works Hard For The Money . . . Donna Summer

Tiny Tuesday . . . What's in your wallet?

This was harder than I thought because the coin picks up the colours around it and my house has a wooden interior so the surface was brown rather than silver.   Anyway here is a New Zealand 20 cent coin the smallest thing in my wallet. It is 21.75 mm in diameter.  I put a $20 note behind it for interest.
From the Reserve Bank site I learned about the carving on it.  I hadn't realised it was from Rotorua where I used to live.
 
The image on the 20 cent coin is a reproduction of a specific carving of an 18th century Māori warrior leader called Pukaki. He was a Rangatira (Chief) of the Ngati Whakaue iwi of Te Arawa in the Rotorua district. The carving was made in 1836 and you can see it today in the Rotorua Museum.  Pukaki came to our attention as a result of the 1984–87 Te Māori exhibition and the use of Pukaki's image on a particularly striking Māori Language Commission poster.  At the time we were looking for a new image to put on the 20 cent coin, as we were moving the kiwi image to the new $1 coin.  The first Pukaki 20 cent coins were issued in 1990.  

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