The arms of Vanuatu featuring a Melanesian warrior standing in front of a curved boar`s tooth above a scroll reading `LONG GOD YUMI STANAP` and the value above. The outer part of the obverse shows different dinosaurs in various positions.
Obverse script
Latin
Obverse lettering
RIPABLIK 10 VATU BLONG
LONG GOD YUMI STANAP
VANUATU (Translation: Republic of Vanuatu In God we stand)
Reverse description
The reverse of the coin depicts the Pteranodon, a genus of extinct pterosaurs, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 85-65 million years ago.