Catalog
100 Kina Reduced Size
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the Parliament House in Port Moresby is rendered in intaglio against a yellow and green guilloche underprint; the national coat of arms in red and orange appears to the left, flanked by two facsimile signatures. A circular transparent window to the right incorporates a Bird of Paradise motif alongside the denomination numeral '100' in orange, while the legend 'Bank of Papua New Guinea' runs along the upper border in red. |
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| Protection description | Circular transparent window on the right side of the obverse incorporating a Bird of Paradise motif; embedded security thread visible when held to light. |
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Papua New Guinea's decision to introduce a reduced-size 100 Kina on polymer came well after neighboring Pacific nations had already standardized on similar formats — the Bank of Papua New Guinea was notably conservative about resizing its higher denominations. Note Printing Australia has handled PNG polymer production continuously since the late 1990s, meaning the technical relationship predates this issue by over two decades.
The transparent window is integrated directly into the polymer substrate rather than applied as a patch — a distinction that matters for authentication in a country where high-denomination counterfeiting has been a documented concern.