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Also an additional note to my Tongan collection.   This is the 20 Pa'anga and complements my $2, $5, $10 (Pa'anga is written as $). It is the same series showing King Siaosi Tupou V (2007 - 2013) and the back shows the Reserve Bank of Tonga building. The same series is in use now, but shows the new king Tupou VI (Uakalolo). There are also $1, $50 and $100 in this series. |
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I really like the $5 Fiji note!
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Thanks, it certainly is popular. I wonder if the Fijians will also make their other notes Polymer as that series is currently all paper except the $5 and commem $50 of last year, which in my opinion is an awful design. Meanwhile, here are my new Papua New Guinea notes.   10 Kina - 1989 This note is a design from 1975 which shows the Bird of Paradise coat of arms on the Obverse and a collection of Kula trade artefacts on the back.   20 Kina is in the same style, but this denomination was added in 1980 (This note is also 1989). It shows a similar Obverse and reverse shows a pig and shell necklaces and amulets prized by the people. These style of notes were replaced by a new series showing the Government building in Boroko in the early 2000s. Edited by Princetane
09/07/2021 03:10 am
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My 2 other notes were cheap as the Kina is not a tradeable currency for notes here for some reason. It is worth 40 cents our money, but the 100 Kina cost me just $15, the 50 was $25.   50 Kina, first introduced in 1989 as a result of inflation. The note was the first to show the Government house at Boroko with the carvings and high roof like a traditional treehouse. It also shows Sir Michael Somare, a former Prime Minister and a collection of carvings, masks and wooden artefacts from around PNG.   This 100 Kina note is the highest value note currently in use and was released in 2008. This one was a commem one celebrating 35 years of the Central Bank, but was later reissued twice without the annivesary seal. The Note is Polymer and shows again the Parliament House at Waigani, Boroko (Near Port Moresby - National Capital) and also shows shipping, produce, fishing and of course the people of the country. Papua New Guinea has 900 languages and several hundred tribes of people. The two main groups are Papuans who live mostly inland and have roots stretching back 30k plus years. The other major group are Melanesians on the coast, whose roots go back only 2000 years but share links with Solomon Islanders, Vanuatu, Bougainville and Fiji! Besides the 900 local languages (Only 100 are widespread), the 2 official languages are English, which is used in Governance and amongst the educated and settled people. And also Pidgin English, known as "Tok Pisin" which is used by most people including "bush" people as a lingua franca. Tok Pisin is very common and the words sound similar to English - examples "Bigmoni kountinghaus" = Bank "Kupti biskit" = Cookie/Biscuits "Manwok goslo" = Road works, men working go slow. Edited by Princetane
09/07/2021 04:12 am
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Thanks for the language and history lesson   |
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Nice additions! |
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Funny as it sounds, Tok Pisin is an effective language as people from over 900 tribal languages can communicate with each other. It is similar to Bislama in Vanuatu (Another form of Pidgin) and Pidgin itself in Solomon Islands.
Unlike Polynesia, the Melanesian nations usually have English on their notes, whereas Polynesian nations have their native languages dominant (Take my Tongan notes) and you will also see notes of Samoa use Samoan as their first language.
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Here a new element on the 64 position of a set I'm working on, where Catalog number matches Grade. This time with a RADAR serial.  |
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Here a new element on the 64 position of a set I'm working on, where Catalog number matches Grade. This time with a RADAR serial. Fantastic! |
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Another slight improvement on the 65 position: This time it's a Replacement / Star note from Egypt, from my favourite TPG. Actually the project leading to this set is called "Project PMG" for "Pick Matches Grade" :) Not all are Pick numbers btw. Not all are PMG slabs either.  |
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Excellent! |
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I really like the Egypt note!
@lighthouse250, you should do a thread of all the ones you have already.
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09/09/2021 2:14 pm
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 & great to see your "Pick - Matches - Grade" project here on CCF. Nice $20 Radar & Egyptian replacement. Oh yeah &  to CCF. "W2W" aka serial#8 elsewhere... |
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Well maybe next weekend. I keep looking for improvements within and outside of the current set. It's complicated :D
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