SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD

Issued June 1994



Reference Number NZ-P-19	Denomination $5	Description Sir Ernest Rutherford	Control Number ADCB	Quantity 9,000
Sir Ernest Rutherford, born 1871, died 1937. In 1911 Rutherford worked out the theory of the atom. This card was released to honour him. There are two different reverses of this card. One with Telecom Corporation Of New Zealand, and the other with Telecom New Zealand. 4,000 were included in the Collector Pack NZ-CP-24 and were overprinted on the reverse with Collector Issue 1994, and 1,000 included in the International version of the pack, also overprinted Collectors Issue 1994. There was no difference between the the two Collector Pack versions.