10 Francs

The New Hebrides operated under a Franco-British Condominium — one of history's more dysfunctional colonial arrangements — in which France and Britain jointly administered the archipelago with parallel governments, parallel legal systems, and parallel currencies. This coin was struck for the Franco-British condominium authority by the Paris Mint, filling a gap left by the absence of any unified monetary infrastructure. The condominium was dissolved in 1980 when the islands gained independence as Vanuatu, ending 74 years of dual colonial rule.