20 Kina

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Descrizione del rovescio	The reverse carries a vignette of a boar's head as a central motif, accompanied by traditional ornamental objects including a toea cowrie shell necklace from Madang, a Toa armband from the Central Province, and a shell ornament from the Western Province. Tapa cloth geometric patterns form decorative elements across the background field. The denomination is inscribed within the overall layout against a multicoloured underprint.
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Tipo di protezione	Watermark
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Commenti	Papua New Guinea adopted polymer for its banknote series well ahead of most Pacific nations, and this 2021 issue continues a run of polymer 20 Kina stretching back to the mid-1990s. Note Printing Australia has been the sole printer for this denomination throughout that period — an unusually long and exclusive relationship for a Pacific central bank. The kina itself was introduced in 1975, coinciding with independence, replacing the Australian dollar at par. That clean one-to-one conversion was politically tidy but economically optimistic; the kina has depreciated substantially against the Australian dollar in the decades since.