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1000 Vatu 25th Anniversary of Independence
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black and green intaglio on an orange and multicolour guilloche underprint; the national arms appear as a vignette at centre right, with a Melanesian chief standing and holding a spear at left. Bilingual bank title inscriptions run along the upper and lower margins in both English and French, with the denomination expressed in both languages across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour. The central vignette illustrates a traditional Melanesian outrigger sailing canoe crewed by three figures, set against a coastal backdrop with mountainous islands in the distance. Two carved wooden figures occupy the left margin alongside a green map of the Vanuatu archipelago, while an ornate geometric guilloche panel fills the right side; the denomination numeral 1000 appears three times in contrasting colours at upper left, upper right, and lower right. |
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Vanuatu's 25th independence anniversary fell in 2005 — the commemorative issue appeared in 2006, printed by De La Rue in London on paper rather than the polymer substrate that had become De La Rue's preferred medium for Pacific island nations by that point. The choice of paper over polymer for a commemorative is worth noting; most comparable Pacific anniversary issues from the mid-2000s went polymer.
The security package is minimal for the era — watermark only, with none of the optically variable elements De La Rue was routinely incorporating elsewhere. Whether that reflects a cost decision by the Reserve Bank or a deliberate nod to the original 1982 series aesthetic is unrecorded.