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Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I suggest it is dubious to identify a New Guinea pound, when no pound notes were ever issued, nor any coins higher than one shilling. The pound referred to was always Australian. I would suggest the New Guinea pound never existed as a currency, and that the coins as New Guinea pennies and shillings are all that can be identified as New Guinea currency. This article should be deleted. Ptilinopus (talk) 07:58, 11 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

i see no action has been taken since I first noted this, and no comments. The last coins issued as New Guinea, were in 1945, and again, no higher than 1 shilling. No notes were ever issued. I would go further: the article is erroneous. Where are the citations? Ptilinopus (talk) 13:48, 11 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

I think it's certainly hard to make an argument that there was a separate New Guinea pound from 1945 to 1966. It's unsourced and seems curious to me that Australia would have continued to issue separate coins during the Second World War, when surely there would have been more immediate matters to attend to. I T B F 📢 09:13, 28 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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