Papua New Guinea 5 Toea coin pendant Pig nosed sea turtle Raggiana bird of paradise Port Moresby Madang Kokopo Austronesia Oceania Lae Arawa Mount Hagen Popondetta Pom Hiri Motu language Austronesian Morobe Province Bougainville n001318
Papua New Guinea 5 Toea {2002-2014} 5S
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front: Pig nosed turtle swimming. Also known as the pitted-shelled turtle or Fly River turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) is native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea.
back: bird of paradise
national emblem of Papua New Guinea consists of a bird-of-paradise over a traditional spear and a kundu drum.
The Raggiana bird-of-paradise, (Paradisaea raggiana) also known as Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise, is a large bird in the bird-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae.
It is distributed widely in southern and northeastern New Guinea, where its name is kumul. It is also known as cenderawasih. As requested by Count Luigi Maria D'Albertis, the epithet raggiana commemorates the Marquis Francis Raggi of Genoa.
The Raggiana bird-of-paradise is the national bird of Papua New Guinea. In 1971 this species, as Gerrus paradisaea, was made the national emblem and was included on the national flag.[2] 'The Kumuls' ("birds-of-paradise" in Tok Pisin) is also the nickname of the country's national rugby league team.
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• polished Copper-nickel coin
• diameter: 19.53 mm
• weight: 2.83 g
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