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5 Kina - Elizabeth II New Parliament Building
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a Raggiana Bird of Paradise in full display, its elaborately feathered wings spread wide, perched above a traditional kundu drum decorated with geometric patterns and flanked by crossed spears, rendered in fine relief against a mirror-polished field. The legend PAPUA NEW GUINEA arcs along the left and upper periphery in bold Latin capitals, while the date 1984 appears in the lower exergue. A small Franklin Mint mintmark is present below the central device. The coin's border is defined by a continuous beaded inner rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Papua New Guinea's Parliament House, opened in 1984, was designed by the Australian architect Cecil Hogan and built with substantial Australian foreign aid — a pointed symbol of the complicated post-independence relationship between the two countries. The building drew heavily from traditional Sepik haus tambaran architectural forms, a deliberate political choice by the Somare government to anchor national identity in Melanesian culture rather than colonial precedent.
The coin was issued the same year the building opened. KM#25 is a one-year type with no continuation in the series.