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10 Vatu
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Reference(s) | Schön#57 |
| Obverse description | The national arms of Vanuatu displayed centrally in the field, depicting a Melanesian warrior standing before a curved boar's tusk. Below the arms, a scroll bears the national motto legend in Bislama. The date of issue appears above the arms, with the country name inscribed along the periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2005 RIPABLIK BLONC LONG GOD YUMI STANAP VANUATU (Translation: Republic of Vanuatu In God we stand) |
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Vanuatu's coinage program, established at independence in 1980, replaced the joint British-French condominium's dual-currency system — one of the more administratively peculiar monetary arrangements in Pacific colonial history, where pounds sterling and French francs circulated simultaneously under separate legal jurisdictions on the same islands.
The 10 vatu is notably heavy for its face value, a deliberate policy choice to give the currency physical credibility in a newly independent nation building institutional trust from scratch.