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2 Kina 35th Anniversary of Independence
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Printer | Note Printing Australia, Melbourne, Australia (1998-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows the Parliament House building in Port Moresby rendered in intaglio against a green guilloche underprint with traditional Melanesian motifs at right. At upper left, the Bird of Paradise national emblem appears within a circular vignette, flanked by the commemorative 35th Anniversary 1975–2010 logo in red and gold. Two signature lines — Governor and Secretary, Department of Treasury — appear at lower left beneath the issuer title "Bank of Papua New Guinea" at top. |
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| Protection type | Polymer substrate, See-through register |
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Issued to mark Papua New Guinea's 35th anniversary of independence from Australia in 1975, this commemorative was printed by Note Printing Australia — a detail worth pausing on. NPA is itself an Australian government-owned enterprise, which gives the print run a quietly ironic dimension: a former colonial power's state printer producing the independence anniversary note of its former territory.
The polymer substrate is standard NPA production for PNG by this period, and the see-through register window is a feature of the base platform rather than anything unique to this issue. Commemorative 2 Kina notes in polymer have been issued by the Bank of Papua New Guinea on multiple occasions, and collector demand has generally been modest.