Robert Maurice Conly

Robert Maurice Conly (* 1920 ; † 1995 ) was a designer of coins and postage stamps in Wellington , New Zealand . As a painter he is known for his motifs from the Antarctic.

Life

Conly comes from Dunedin in the south of the South Island of New Zealand and was born there on May 4th, 1920. He was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force from 1941 to 1946 and then an Air Force Reservist from 1954. In 1974 he won the "Antarctic Arts Fellow" award under the "Artists to Antarctica" program. He died on August 10, 1995.

Coins

From 1990 a new 20 cent coin was introduced, with Conly's design of the reverse of this coin. It shows a Maori carving of Pukaki, a chief of the Ngati Whakaue tribe.

He also designed the new one and two dollar coins. They were introduced as a means of payment in New Zealand in 1991 and replaced the $ 1 and $ 2 banknotes that had been in effect until then. The 1 dollar coin shows the kiwi , the national bird of New Zealand designed by Conly . The 2-dollar coin shows the rare bird called Kotuku or White Heron, which is of great importance in Maori mythology.

Postage stamps

He designed postage stamps for New Zealand and for Tokelau , Ross Dependency , Niue and the Cook Islands .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ian McGibbon: New Zealand's Vietnam War: A History of Combat, Commitment and Controversy. Exisle Publishing, 2010, ISBN 1-877-56853-8 , p. 570. Limited preview in Google Book Search
2. ↑ Canterbury Heritage: History Happened Here. (No longer available online.) In: canterburyheritage.blogspot.co.nz. April 28, 2009, archived from the original on January 2, 2015 ; accessed on January 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Conly, Robert Maurice, 1920-1995

Web links

• History of New Zealand Coinage Official New Zealand Coin Site