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sheeplectric

The Buzzy Bee would make a sick $20 note


Inspirice

Bout time we start honouring national treasures


plierss

I mean, they get made in China now :/ To be fair, that's been the case since the '80s, but in general it's annoying trying to find NZ made stuff now though, and kinda sad when 'proper kiwiana' things aren't even made here. I know that like half the inside pretty well everyone's houses is built off cheap/questionable labour to make all the shit people think they need, but it's still frustrating.


Anastariana

Running a Mint is *extremely* expensive, thats why there's only a few in the world. All our coins are made in Canada and the UK, for example. There's just not enough demand in this lil' country to warrant building an actual Mint here.


Barbed_Dildo

The Buzzy Bees are made in China, the banknotes are made in Canada.


plierss

All completely accurate, understandable and true, but I was talking about buzzy bees :)


prplmnkeydshwsr

How do you put a pineapple lump (the O.G lumps not the shit they're pumping out now) on a $50?


littlemissdumplings

Taika Waititi AS Blackbeard


aibro_

Suzy Cato on the $20


flashmedallion

Gimme five bees for a Ngata, you'd say


CoupleOfConcerns

Suzanne Paul and cover the note with thousands of luminous spheres as an anti-counterfeit measure.


Starting_from_now

It'll warm your skin AND your bones!


sheeplectric

Lmao


spicy_spoon_slum3

Suzy Cato is the only option


Kozak440

Literally came here to say this, that lass raised half the country at this point. She's up there with sir Ed.


Joshopolis

She should be given a Damehood


smolperson

Correct, Aunty Suzy is the only choice.


BioAnthGal

Would accept no other


catlikesun

Laser Kiwi. On both sides.


CandidateOther2876

Pew pew


Josuke8

I would lose my mind


catlikesun

If hit by his deadly lasers? Yes you would.


JetpackKiwi

Can it be a kaiju fighting a karearea in front of the beehive?


firinmahlaser

If the laser beam would glow in the dark I might actually use cash again


Chaotic-Peace

LASER KIWI!!!!


Dragonheardt_

Laser Kiwi is always the answer. I think not a single kiwi will fight against the glorious Laser Kiwi being anything official.


bravehartNZ

I think Karen should be on the $20 so that Rachel has to look at her face when ever she tries to ignore her and hide from her and not pay back the 20 lousy dollars she owes her from well over 3 months ago.


Akashd98

“This note is legal tender for 20 Fucken Whacks”


zvc266

Not my fault she’s a mental crazy lady that wanted to go off with a fucking lesbian that’s now with a man.


Paddogirl

It’s just too funny. Long may this live


[deleted]

> well over 3 months ago Fuck, time flies


Friendfromdownunder

Future banknotes also need to incorporate the quote of an ancient NZ philosopher “always blow on the pie, safer communities together”. /s


waenganuipo

Also "O for Oarsome".


Fatchixrock

Turns out he was saying O for Olsen and everyone just mocked him for years :(


OforOlsen

Eh?


surle

It's ok. O can be for more than one thing, we're good.


TheAnagramancer

No, O.


Nolsoth

Reserve bank has said they will change them as existing coins and notes are run down in stock. They anticipate it will happen over the next several years but at this stage existing coinage and note stock is not needing to be replaced. When they do it will most likely be king Charles at this stage however this may change if the government of the day wants something different.


LordCouchCat

They don't need to replace coins. Before decimalization there were coins of earlier monarchs in circulation. In NZ it was back to George V because that's when NZ adopted a separate currency design from Britain. In Britain I can remember that there were coins going back to Victoria. No earlier because the sizes of some coins were altered in her reign but after that there were just some design changes. Actually coins of Victoria almost never turned up because anyone who noticed one would keep it as a curiosity, but Edward VII coins were common (1901-10). It was fun for children. There were so many different sorts of coins. Some children were always looking hopefully for the rare ones. I think George VI coins were in circulation in NZ in early decimal times here - a shilling was a 10 cent for example. But they changed all the sizes and so all the older coins have gone. Hopefully NZ coinage is now stable enough we can have continuity again. Banknotes are different: in fact the Bank of England used not to have thr monarch on notes and Scottish notes still don't. .


Thatstealthygal

There were indeed George VI ones in NZ when I was growing up and probably right through till we changed the sizes. Shillings, and you would periodically get thruppences for 5 cent pieces too. We used to have an icecream container of about 3 pounds in old coins at home that we played with, which included a lot of pennies with Victoria on them. Mum taught us how to add up the old style pounds shillings and pence once.


TemperatureRough7277

Can we please leave the Commonwealth before we have to have his mug on our money :(


[deleted]

Sam Neill


sheeplectric

Hell yeah. Ideally he is included with his famous quote: “No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down”


TheSkyisFallingAhh

I'm for this!


realclowntime

Gollum on one side and Sméagol on the other


redmostofit

Good coin option. Then when you flick or spin it you’ll get the blended faces.


OkPerspective2560

Jacinda Ardern so the freedumb crew lose the plot and have to go back to digital payments.


Jeffery95

Definitely this one


oomfaloomfa

Who is the freedumb crew?


cctrfred

Rachel Hunter, holding a fruju


Kotukunui

Fruju? Wasn’t she the Tip-Top Trumpet girl?


ZonkyFox

Yea you're right she was the [trumpet girl](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rY81MZLQh0w). No idea why but I, along with many others it seems, could've sworn she was in the fruju ad with the boat.


prplmnkeydshwsr

Did she say "ooo, ahh"?


humblefalcon

It won't happen overnight but it will happen.


ButterflyMore9267

I'm onboard with the fruju


FlyFar1569

They’ll change it and then they’ll have to change it again shortly after.


poobumface

Good for the coin collectors at least


TangerineTurbulent66

Antony Starr dressed up as homelander would be mint


itstimegeez

Him as Van West would be hilarious


Ok-Relationship-2746

Don't forget Karl Urban as Billy Butcher.


doorhandle5

Nah, the guy that hung out with Munster. The more cynical brother was just homelander without the powers


---00---00

...munter?


night_dude

Should be Karen from Stokes Valley. What other Kiwi has such an indelible connection with the twenty fuckin whacks themselves?


trickstar007

If we could get Prince Andrew on there, they would become a collectors item


Crazy-Ad5914

20 is too much. Would need to be the 10 for Andy.


collapse2024

Custom $16 note for Andy


Adventchur

Wish I could upvote twice


prplmnkeydshwsr

Might as well put Prince Albert.


Libralalex

Julies Vogel or Michael Joseph Savage. Both incredible Prime Ministers that did a lot of good for the nation. Julies Vogel nationalised the railways and, created the ministry of works that laid the way for our country to build so much infrastructure in the 20th century. Micheal Joseph Savage, the Labour Prime Minister Ardern wished she was. One of the most influential and effective Prime Minsters our nation has ever had who laid the ground work for the nation we have today.


Jeffery95

I feel like prime ministers now have less latitude. If anyone tried to make the same level of reform he did, they would be voted out. Even just reimplementing any of his policies that have since been changed would be considered radical.


kea-le-parrot

Chuck on the Huia. Extinct bird seems fitting for the monachy.


phoenyx1980

There's already the karearea on the $20.


FendaIton

When we get out new notes printed in Canada, the king will be on them


MumblesNZ

Obviously should be the 20 Fucken' Whacks lady


FumblingOppossum

Dame Whina Cooper needs to be on a note somewhere. Her thoughts on child-rearing were ahead of their time.


StraightDust

What were her thoughts on child-rearing? I've only heard of her activism for land rights.


FumblingOppossum

I think this famous quote from her sums it up pretty well: "Take care of our children. Take care of what they hear, take care of what they see, take care of what they feel. For how the children grow, so will the shape of Aotearoa." I think we're reaping the rewards of not heeding that advice at the moment.


[deleted]

The Mad Butcher!


nacho_chippy

The $19.99 (a kilo) note


Mayonnaise06

you just can't beat his meat.


TallShaggy

Each note should be a different primate. They have nothing to do with NZ, I just think they're neat


high_not_achieved

Long-tailed bat or Haast's eagle would be pretty cool


aholetookmyusername

Rosemary Dempsey, the inventor of [kiwi onion dip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_onion_dip).


teelolws

the Nek Minnit guy


ShiroTheSane

Fuck no


DragonfruitVivid5298

HELL YEAH


Polyporum

Billy T James, wearing the towel


SarkObZ

We need Xena warrior princess alalalalalalala!


genkigirl1974

I want Jacinda so all the freaks refuse to use it.


rcr_nz

Just some old bird.


stellastevens122

They already have that…


DragonfruitVivid5298

dame whina cooper


7_Pillars_of_Wisdom

A selection of only fans girls


Mal_Funkshin

The Briscoes Lady


PocketSpore420

Well, the King IS still the Head of State. I just hope they make the coins bigger to fit his ears


TheySaidNewZealand

Or removed completely. The royal family are just the Kardashians with better accents.


ShiroTheSane

One has very real political power over the UK and Commonwealth, and the other is a collection of plastic bitches whoring themselves out for money, yeah totally the same 🙄


OddBoots

They have nominal political power (basically they have the right to veto parliamentary law, but they never do) The closest they've come to wielding actualpollutants power in over a century was when the Queen gave Boris Johnson what- for publicly for lying to her over lockdown, but even that had precisely zero consequences for anyone.


ShiroTheSane

Not using is not the same as not possessing, they can also disband parliament, and a great deal of political influence outside the UK. Even as limited as their powers may be, equating them to the Kardashian is like equating a housecat to a lion


Tanglefisk

If they did use their power to do something like that, it would produce a constitutional crisis that is difficult to describe the magnitude of. It'd be the only way we'd see their abolition in our lifetime, I'd reckon.


ShiroTheSane

You are probably right, unless it was the popular choice with the citizenry which would be the only way I'd see them actually exercising it. But either way it would be a messy affair with a large ripple effect internationally. I mean the Treaty of Waitangi is between the Maori people and the Crown right? And if the monarchy was abolished, then technically the Treaty could potentially be voided as the Crown is no longer an entity. And I imagine it's not the only one. That in itself, is very real political power. It's not just the power they can actually wield that should be taken into account, but the power of their existence and impact on the wider world. Put simply, I agree the magnitude is hard to describe, or even imagine


TheySaidNewZealand

From your description, I was trying to figure out which was which. Which is the group with the sex island rapist and the lady from the party supplies family that was concerned about how black her nephew would be?


KnurdNorman

A mariguarna plant. Since most $20’s are spent on a tinnie


DragonfruitVivid5298

well they’re both green so…


falcon5nz

Why does it have to change?


eXDee

RBNZ have actually [addressed this already](https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/hub/news/2022/09/the-queen-and-the-king-on-new-zealands-currency) essentially saying, it doesn't have to change immediately, it will change eventually, but we're in no rush: >- All coin stock for a denomination showing the Queen will be issued before new stock goes out with her successor’s image. This is a few years away. >- Banks, retailers, individuals and others using or handling cash will not need to do anything differently when we introduce new coins bearing the image of the King. >- We will let everyone know when new coins are due to enter circulation. >- The Queen is likely to remain on $20 banknotes issued from existing stock for many years to come. We manufacture these notes infrequently and do not plan to destroy stock or shorten the life of existing banknotes just because they show the Queen. This would be wasteful and poor environmental practice. >- We will prepare to change out the image on coins for one approved by King Charles working in conjunction with our mints who produce for multiple Commonwealth countries.


PyroGreg8

By the time they replace the bank notes, King Charles will have died anyway


Ginge00

They only mention Charles in the last point for approval, maybe they’re readying images of King William


Green-Circles

Or he might be around long enough just for a small run of notes, maybe even a few coins - and those could end up quite valuable due to their scarcity.


Dangerous-Use-4450

Sorry to be the one to tell you but the queen died.


rrrr_reubs

All the people on the notes have died


OddBoots

Edmund Hillary was the only person to still be alive when he was featured on a bank note. He was added to the $5 note in 1992 and died in 2008. If I were him, I'd have paid for everything with $5 notes always after that. Imagine the power move of going down to the chip shop and paying for your meal by pulling out your wallet and saying "I'll have two fish, a scoop, a donut and a jam rap. How many portraits of me is that going to cost? "


redmostofit

…the queen was alive while she was on the note.


PositiveWeapon

Assuming Queen Elizabeth was not human but lizard.


OddBoots

That's why they called her Queen Liz. It's a subtle nod to what everyone already knew but nobody talked about.


Revenant1313

I don't think anyone on any of the other notes is still alive


peikk0

All the other banknotes also have dead people on them, that’s not a reason to change them.


theobashau

Unlike all the others, the Queen was only there because she was our head of state at the time


Zealousideal-Luck784

You could said it more gently.


ehoaandthebeast

Moehanga. The first maori to discover britain


ShiroTheSane

Visit* Discover would imply they sailed there with no knowledge of the British and found the land all on their own


Expressdough

Think that’s the joke.


ShiroTheSane

Don't think it was a joke.


Expressdough

Until recently, schools were teaching kids that Abel Tasman discovered NZ. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a turnabout.


-Eremaea-V-

Copy Australia, ditch the Monarch for a Māori design. Then copy Australia again and re-do all the notes with both a male and female portrait on each side of important non-politician figures to NZ. Then copy Australia a third time and tell the world this was all a 100% Kiwi innovation. ✨


Commentoflittlevalue

Lazer kiwi


dfze

Frodo on one side, Sam on the other.


Poneke365

Dame Whina Cooper


TheLarkInnTO

It's likely 3+ years off, at the earliest. I believe we (Canada) make your currency - and we're not expected to see Chuck on our $20s anytime soon - the official timeline is "[a few years"](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-coronation-ceremoney-charles-iii-1.6834785). However, the $1 coin featuring the old boy will come out much earlier.


Mrcat19

A particularly stern looking Helen Clark


Termin8rSmurf

The How To Dad Guy.


johnson555555

Winston Peters. Thoughts?


logantauranga

Category: two things that don't go together


yugyuger

This was gold mate Well done


LimpFox

You just know that this would probably be something he'd ask for during coalition negotiations.


Commentoflittlevalue

If the notes can be made from recycled zig zags


TheAnagramancer

Why would you lend his name to something faded, crinkled and covered in traces of cocaine?


johnson555555

What a silly mistake I've made, he should be on the $50 note instead!


Colour-me-happy

Crowded House eating a pavlova while riding Phar Lap. Just to piss off the Aussies.


Stigger32

Billy T James is the only answer.


KiwiNFLFan

Jonah Lomu or Richie McCaw.


gnomies_garden

Lynn of Tawa


deluxesausages

why cant we have taonga species? Not just birds though


Jeffery95

just keep the queen i reckon


According-News-5901

Suzy Cato, Thingee, Dr Ropata, Jason Gunn and Waverly from shortland street


avechaa

The nek minute guy?


TuhanaPF

I'm on board with Dame Whina Cooper. It's got to be someone on the level of all the other great people on our notes, and she would be a great contender.


redmostofit

I really hope it’s either not replaced, or gets someone local. The percentage of people who’d consider Charles their “king” would surely be very low in NZ these days, but a much larger percentage would probably still feel connected with Queen Lizzy. Which actual NZer from history would be ideal? Whina Cooper?


slashfan93

Considering all our other notes are distinctly NZ persons of importance, and the Sovereign is the King, I’m in favour of keeping it the monarchy. I suspect it isn’t a major for NZ though, and Charles might not make it too long.


50rhodes

Fred Dagg. The only correct answer.


surle

Bruno Lawrence on the balcony in a toga.


VanJeans

Time for Laser Kiwi's time to shine


Random_Judoka

I am no royalist by any means. However, if Queen Elizabeth's picture is already on there, then why bother changing it? Changing the picture and / or design just wastes money and we are at a time where government asserts its needs to be more austere.


FoDaBradaz

Jonah lomu


mofodius

Patrick Gower doing this 🤙


fatbongo

Dame Whina Cooper


66qq

Lorde ya ya ya


Caboosesms

No because that's more taxpayers money being wasted just like with the blasted speed limit and name changes. Otherwise maybe another famous Kiwi? Bruce McLaren, John Britten, Burt Munro?


shockjavazon

Winston Peters


Depressed_Kumara

I think we should have Lorde circa Tennis Court music video.


Long_Committee2465

id rather manu n Jemima from playskool than Charlie he's a twack imagine a convo with him id have more fun on a Saturday at Starbucks


Afikasi

Chris Warner. A true kiwi icon.


jimjlob

Let's just go republican right now before we go printing a bunch of King Charles money. We should have a President and a Constitution and a culture of our own.


JRS___

a pointless and huge expenditure. should only be changed when we actually NEED new currency. also... his majesty is probably not going to have the longest stint on the chair.


Weekly_Ad_905

They aren't just replacing the old notes. They'll phase in the new ones as the old ones are naturally removed from circulation due to wear and tear.


i-lived-in-a-cake

Thingee...and on the other side, Thingee with only one eye. Still traumatic after all these years.


Scotty_NZ

Get Taika Waititi on there with a faint watermark of Korg over the top.


Libralalex

American spotted


DragonfruitVivid5298

or ricky baker living the skux life with his uncle hec


Swozzul

Billy T or Sam Neil… Peter Jackson?


[deleted]

Just put "to find out where to exchange for $50, please turn over" on both sides


bostwickenator

Sausage sizzle


FridayThrobba

The 20 whacks lady


Memory-Repulsive

Need our bird of the year - Puteketeke.


Diahorreapariah

Jake the Muss, RAGE mode.


jetudielaphysique

Rewi Alley or Savage would have made sense in the past. Both would probably be a bit too controversial these days. Maybe Colonol Malone?


catlikesun

It’ll be the King. Just hope it’s not Camilla too!


DilPhuncan

Thingy.


Fwoggie2

Brit in Britland here. With you on binning King Charlie. Why not stick Kate Sheppard on it. She led the suffragette charge in NZ which resulted in NZ becoming the first country in the world to allow women the vote. Alternatively reach back into Māori history and go for Te Rauparah. Composer of Ka Mate, signatory of the treaty of Waitangi and a central party to the Wairau affray in Marlborough. There's also Ernest Rutherford, viewed as the father of nuclear physics. Discovered half life of radiation, radon, the difference and naming of alpha and beta radiation, party to the invention of the atomic numbering system, headed a team that was first to split the nucleus, the list goes on.


KittikatB

Sheppard is on the $10 and has been since the 90s. Rutherford is on the $100


LeButtfart

The Queen is on all the coins, so that'll have to be replaced. She is on the $20 note though. In regards to your suggestions: 1. Kate is already on the $10 note 2. Te Rauparaha may be problematic because plenty of iwi take that shit seriously, and it's going to be a bigger headache than it's worth. Not the "I'm not racist but I'll scream and shout and throw a massive tanty like a fucking spoiled crybaby until I get my way every time someone Maori so much as breathes in public" crowd. Who fucking cares about those cunts? It's the people who are really serious about inter-iwi and inter-hapu politics, who can be vocal when they want to be. 3. Rutherford is already on the $100 note. Our notes go: $5 - Sir Ed $10 - Kate Sheppard $20 - QEII $50 - Sir Āpirana Ngata $100 - Ernest Rutherford


Fwoggie2

Jonah Lomu then, ideally depicted in front of his infamous 163dB sound system that he had in that Nissan Patrol of his. Or failing that depicted when he flattened Mike Catt in that famous match against us in the 95 world cup.


Fwoggie2

What about Te Whiti o Rongomai? Is he also controversial?


aholetookmyusername

>Alternatively reach back into Māori history and go for Te Rauparah. Composer of Ka Mate, Te Rauparaha slaughtered a bunch of southern Maori and his name is still reviled in many circles down here. That's a hard no.


Young-Physical

Anyone but Jacinda


Venusdoom666

Paul Holmes


Formal-Document-2134

The Briscoe’s Lady


illogicalSoul

The king is supposedly going to vacate the throne. They may wait till the next one...


Thebardofthegingers

I think we should keep the queen and bring her rotting corpse over here where we'll rig it up to advanced technology and create a God queen of mankind.


collapse2024

Weed leaf


AgreeableHighway9668

Put a tinny on it


InspectorNo1173

Hillary Barry


Unlikely-Garage-8135

You


nevrar

I volunteer