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.
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.