[3] All the notes of this series had Queen Elizabeth II on the front, and a watermark of Captain James Cook.

The back of the one-hundred-dollar note featured a takahē, one of the rarest birds in New Zealand at the time, which had been thought extinct until the 1940s, and a mountain daisy.

[3] The new one-hundred-dollar note featured Lord Rutherford of Nelson on the front, with the Nobel Prize medal he won in 1908.

[5] The medal is overlaid by a graph showing the results of Rutherford’s investigations into naturally occurring radioactivity.

[2] Another feature was the tukutuku patterning on the front, called "whakaaro kotahi", taken from the Wharenui Kaakati at Whakatū Marae in Nelson.

The change increased the life of the banknotes and also allowed new and improved security features to prevent counterfeiting.

The note was brighter in colour and featured the Māori translation of Reserve Bank (Te Putea Matua), and "New Zealand, Aotearoa" on the back.

The Series 6 security features include that, when the note is shown to the light, a shadow image of Elizabeth II is displayed.

There is an image of a fern located above the see-through window, and the two sides should match perfectly when held up to the light.