2 Kina

Pick 1 is the founding note of the Bank of Papua New Guinea, issued on 19 April 1975 — the same date the kina replaced the Australian dollar at par following independence the previous September. The choice of Thomas De La Rue was unremarkable for a newly established central bank; what is more notable is how quickly the series required revision, with the signature combinations cycling rapidly through the late 1970s as the bank's administration stabilised.

First-issue P#1 notes with the earliest signature pairing are considerably scarcer than the series' general availability suggests.