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10 Kina - Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 10 Kina |
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| Reverse description | The diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right in a youthful portrait after the model by Arnold Machin, with the Queen wearing a tiara and a light drapery at the shoulder. The bust is centered in the field, surrounded by a beaded border. The circular legend reads SILVER JUBILEE · 1952-1977 · ELIZABETH II · along the upper and right periphery, commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Her Majesty's accession. The denomination · K10 · appears in large characters below the bust. |
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| Mint | Franklin Mint, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Papua New Guinea had been independent for less than two years when this piece was struck — the nation declared sovereignty in September 1975, making the 1977 Silver Jubilee issue one of the earliest commemoratives produced under the Bank of Papua New Guinea's own authority. The timing created an odd political geometry: a newly sovereign republic honoring the jubilee of the monarch whose government had administered the territory for decades under an Australian trusteeship mandate.