Catalog
10 Vatu Delias Sagessa
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Vanuatu occupies the central field, depicting a traditionally attired Melanesian warrior standing upright and holding an upright spear in his right hand, set against a circular boar's tusk motif flanked by two crossed namele fern fronds. A curved banner below bears the national motto in Bislama: LONG GOD YUMI STANAP. The legend RIPABLIK BLONG VANUATU is arranged around the periphery in three segments, with the date 2006 inscribed at the top of the field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Delias sagessa is a butterfly endemic to Vanuatu, part of the genus Delias — the largest genus in the family Pieridae — whose species are distributed almost entirely across the Indo-Pacific. Vanuatu's conservation-themed coinage program from this period was explicitly linked to regional biodiversity awareness initiatives, not domestic circulation. These pieces were produced for the collector market and almost certainly never entered the cash economy of Port Vila.