1940 New Zealand Proof Centennial Halfcrown

$8,956.00

New Zealand. George VI. 1940 Proof Halfcrown. Centennial of New Zealand. GEORGE VI KING EMPEROR, bare head of George VI left by Thomas Humphrey Paget. NEW ZEALAND CENTENNIAL HALF CROWN · 1840 · 1940, Māori woman standing with outstretched arms before a radiant sun; a whare and pūhara at left symbolising pre-European New Zealand, and a modern commercial building at right representing national development. An extremely scarce proof striking of this one-year commemorative halfcrown for the 100th anniversary of New Zealand. KM#14

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 53, Sale 54, Sale 57, cited as one of only four in private hands. Other accounts encountered in commerce still as low as 5 (HA, 2015). From the Collection of Professor Wayne Newman Palmer, HA, January 2005, and later the Peh Family Collection. Officially Certified by NGC as PF64.