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50 Kina

Issuer Bank of Papua New Guinea
Year 2008-2012
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Value 50 Kina
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Reverse lettering Bank of Papua New Guinea
50
Fifty Kina
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Protection description Transparent polymer window at lower right with an optically variable element; teal and silver spiral OVD device at centre-right of obverse
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Papua New Guinea adopted polymer for its 50 Kina well ahead of most Pacific neighbours, and Note Printing Australia — the Reserve Bank of Australia's security printing subsidiary in Melbourne — supplied the substrate and production. The transparent window on polymer notes of this generation was integrated directly into the substrate rather than applied as a patch, a distinction that matters when authenticating worn examples where applied features can delaminate.

Two signature combinations exist across the print run, reflecting a change in Bank governor between 2008 and 2012. Loi Bakani replaced Wilson Kamit in 2009, making the 2012 pairing the more commonly encountered of the two.

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