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10 Vatu Papilio toboroi
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Vatu (1982-date) |
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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. Below the central device, a scroll bears the national motto in Bislama: 'LONG GOD YUMI STANAP' (In God We Stand). The legend 'RIPABLIK BLONG VANUATU' arcs around the periphery, with the date '2006' appearing above the arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Papilio toboroi, the Bougainville butterfly for which this coin is named, was described as a species only in 1975 — the same year Vanuatu (then the New Hebrides) was moving toward independence, which it achieved in 1980. The Reserve Bank began issuing collector-focused wildlife series partly to generate foreign currency revenue, a fiscal strategy common among small Pacific island nations with limited export bases.
Silver-plated copper-nickel issues of this type circulated almost exclusively as numismatic exports rather than domestic tender.