10 Kina 35th Anniversary of Independence

Issued to mark the 35th anniversary of Papua New Guinea's independence from Australia in 1975, this commemorative polymer note was printed by Note Printing Australia — the same country that administered PNG as a territory until independence. That detail is not incidental. NPA had been supplying PNG's circulating polymer notes since the country adopted the substrate in the late 1990s, making Australian printing infrastructure a persistent feature of an independent state's currency well into the twenty-first century.

Pick 40 circulated alongside the standard 10 Kina issue rather than replacing it, limiting its numismatic footprint to collectors and gift purchasers.