New Zealand two-dollar note

{{Short description|Former denomination of New Zealand currency}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}

{{Infobox banknote

| country = New Zealand

| denomination = Two dollars

| value = 2

| unit = New Zealand dollars

| paper_type = Cotton-based paper

| years_of_printing = 1967–1991

| obverse = New Zealand 2 dollar note obverse series 4.jpg

| obverse_design = Queen Elizabeth II

| obverse_designer =

| obverse_design_date = 1967, updated portrait 1981

| reverse = New Zealand 2 dollar note reverse series 4.jpg

| reverse_design = Rifleman and mistletoe flowers

| reverse_designer =

| reverse_design_date = 1967

}}

The New Zealand two-dollar note was a banknote of the New Zealand dollar in circulation from 1967 until 1991.

The note introduced on 10 July 1967, replacing the £1 note. In 1981, the fourth series of banknotes were released with minor drawing changes and a portrait update of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse. The note was withdrawn from circulation along with the one-dollar note in 1991, replaced by the one- and two-dollar coins released the previous year.

The two-dollar note featured Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse, and New Zealand native species on the reverse: the rifleman bird (Acanthisitta chloris, ({{langx|mi|titipounamu}}), and flowers of red mistletoe (Peraxilla tetrapetala, Māori: {{lang|mi|roeroe}}).{{cite web |url=http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/currency/money/0094089.html |title=The history of bank notes in New Zealand |work=Reserve Bank of New Zealand |accessdate=5 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217145354/http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/currency/money/0094089.html |archivedate=17 February 2012 }}