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20 Toea - Elizabeth II Bennett's Cassowary
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
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| Year | 1975-1999 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1975 - Minted in 1974-1975 - 15,500,000 1975 FM - Matte - 8,300 1975 FM - Proof - 67,000 1975 FM - Special Uncirculated - 4,134 1976 FM - Matte - 8,300 1976 FM - Proof - 16,000 1976 FM - Special Uncirculated - 976 1977 FM - Matte - 8,300 1977 FM - Proof - 7,721 1977 FM - Special Uncirculated - 603 1978 - - 2,500,000 1978 FM - Matte - 8,300 1978 FM - Proof - 5,540 1978 FM - Special Uncirculated - 777 1979 FM - Matte - 8,300 1979 FM - Proof - 2,728 1979 FM - Special Uncirculated - 1,366 1980 FM - Proof - 2,125 1980 FM - Special Uncirculated - 1,160 1981 - - 1981 - Proof - 10,000 1982 FM - Matte - 1982 FM - Proof - 1983 FM - Proof - 1983 FM - Special Uncirculated - 360 1984 - - 1984 FM - Proof - 1987 - - 1990 - - 1995 - - 1996 - - 1998 - - 1999 - - |
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Papua New Guinea's first national coinage series launched at independence in September 1975, replacing the Australian dollar that had circulated during the Territory period. The Bennett's cassowary was selected not as decorative filler but as a deliberate assertion of endemic identity — this flightless bird exists nowhere else on earth outside of New Guinea and far northeastern Queensland.
The series ran through 1999 with minimal design alteration across a quarter century, an unusual continuity for a newly sovereign nation still defining its institutions.