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20 Kina
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
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| Year | 1989-2002 |
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| Value | 20 Kina |
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| Reverse description | A detailed intaglio vignette of a boar's head in three-quarter view occupies the right half of the note, surrounded by cowrie shells and a string of beads serving as traditional currency ornaments. The left portion carries a stylised crocodile motif rendered in the Sepik decorative style, set against a multicolour underprint of tribal geometric patterns in red, orange, and yellow. The issuer's name BANK OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA is inscribed along the lower left, with the numeral 20 repeated at upper left and lower right corners. |
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| Signature(s) | not dated (1995) - Tarata & Aopi not dated (1996) - Tarata & Mulina * * not listed in catalog not dated (1998) - Vulupindi & Vele not dated (2000-2001) - Kamit & Tarata (20)02 - Kamit & Tarata |
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Papua New Guinea introduced the kina in 1975 when it replaced the Australian dollar at independence, and the P#10 20 Kina series ran across an unusually long print window — over a decade with at least five distinct signature combinations. The Tarata & Mulina pairing is particularly worth noting: it does not appear in standard catalog references, making that variant difficult to price with confidence and easy to overlook in a lot.
The 2002-dated issue is the only example in the series to carry a printed date rather than the undated format used throughout the 1990s.