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10 Vatu John Paul II & Arafat
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Vanuatu occupy the central field, depicting a Melanesian warrior in traditional dress standing before a curved boar's tusk emblem. The denomination '10 VATU' appears above the arms, with the national motto 'LONG GOD YUMI STANAP' inscribed on a scroll below. The legends 'RIPABLIK BLONG VANUATU' arc around the design in Latin script. |
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| Obverse lettering | RIPABLIK 10 VATU BLONG LONG GOD YUMI STANAP VANUATU |
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Vanuatu has issued a long series of silver-plated commemoratives pairing improbable combinations of world figures, and this piece is among the more striking examples — John Paul II, who died in 2005, and Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, sharing a coin issued seven years after both were dead. Neither figure had any particular connection to Vanuatu. These are collector novelties produced for the international souvenir market, with the Reserve Bank lending its name to issues that bear no relationship to domestic monetary policy or history.