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5 Kina - Elizabeth II Decade for Women - UN
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Value | 5 Kina |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A half-length figure of a woman wearing traditional dress and a bead necklace, depicted in three-quarter profile reaching upward with both hands to harvest berries from a leafy branch; a woven basket rests in the lower field before her. To the right, a stylized Venus symbol combined with a dove motif alludes to the UN Decade for Women theme. The legend UNITED NATIONS arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by raised dot ornaments, while DECADE FOR WOMEN curves along the lower periphery; the denomination 5 KINA appears in the lower central field. A decorative border of raised diamond lozenges frames the entire design. |
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The United Nations Decade for Women ran from 1976 to 1985, and Papua New Guinea was among the nations that issued commemorative coinage near the program's close. The Decade itself grew directly out of the 1975 Mexico City World Conference on Women, which set an agenda around equality, development, and peace — language that carried particular weight for a country only nine years independent from Australian administration when this coin was struck.
KM#28 was produced for the collector market rather than circulation, part of a broader wave of .925 silver issues Papua New Guinea released through the early 1980s to generate foreign exchange.