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| 裏面の説明 | 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. |
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| 偽造防止技術 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
| 偽造防止の説明 | the Bird of Paradise visible in the unprinted area of the note |
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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.