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20 Kina 40 Years of Independence
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Polymer |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a finely detailed intaglio portrait of a ceremonially adorned boar's head, wearing traditional shell and seed ornaments including kina shell and necklaces, set against a decorative underprint of indigenous geometric patterns in warm ochre and brown tones. At left, a Sepik-style carved mask vignette and a circular ceremonial emblem in a clear polymer window are visible. The denomination numeral "20" appears at upper left, with "Twenty Kina" in letterpress along the right edge. |
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| Protection description | Transparent polymer window at right on obverse bearing a circular ceremonial emblem with colour-shifting properties; security features inherent to polymer substrate including see-through registration elements. |
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The 40th independence anniversary issue came in 2015, marking Papua New Guinea's separation from Australian administration in 1975. Note Printing Australia has printed PNG's polymer currency since the country adopted the substrate in 1991 — one of the earlier adoptions of polymer banknotes anywhere in the Pacific, predating many larger economies by years.
The optically variable ink on this commemorative shifts between two colors depending on viewing angle, a feature NPA began integrating more aggressively into Pacific issue commemoratives during this period. P#49 is the commemorative designation; the standard circulating 20 Kina ran concurrently.