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Biography: Muldoon, Robert David

Decimal currency

Decimal currency

In July 1967 New Zealand introduced new decimal currency. Then Minister of Finance Rob Muldoon is seen here holding four of the new banknotes.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1967/3374/32

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Barry Gustafson. 'Muldoon, Robert David', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28156/decimal-currency (accessed 4 June 2026).