Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Kina
| Issuer | Bank of Papua New Guinea |
|---|---|
| Year | 1992-2005 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | P#13 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central composition of a traditional Melanesian ceremonial mask rendered in intaglio, shown with decorative feathered headdress and shell ornaments, accompanied to its left by a kina shell chest pendant. The background carries a multicolour guilloche underprint of interlocking curvilinear motifs in orange and gold tones. Denomination numeral '5' appears in ornate scroll-work at both left and right edges of the design. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | the Bird of Paradise visible in the unprinted area of the note |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Kina was introduced in 1975 when Papua New Guinea severed its currency link with the Australian dollar upon independence. The name comes from the Tolai people's kina shell, a traditional exchange medium in the Highlands and coastal trade networks long before colonial contact. That continuity between pre-contact shell currency and the modern decimal unit is deliberate policy, not coincidence.
The STK prefix on the 2005 dating is a stock replacement designation, meaning those notes were printed to fill gaps caused by destroyed or damaged notes rather than as part of a standard new issue run. Replacement prefixes for Papua New Guinea notes are consistently underissued and harder to locate than the regular series.