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200 Vatu 15th Anniversary of Independence
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Vatu (1982-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | LONG GOD YUMI STANAP |
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| Protection description | Watermark in the form of a portrait of a man, visible when the note is held to light. |
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Vanuatu achieved independence from the joint British-French Condominium in 1980, one of the more unusual colonial arrangements in Pacific history — a territory jointly administered by two powers with separate legal systems, currencies, and languages running in parallel. This note marks the fifteenth anniversary of that event, making it a commemorative issue rather than a routine replacement in the circulation series.
Thomas De La Rue's production is clean but the security specification is notably lean for a mid-1990s commemorative — watermark only, no security thread. Pick 9 is moderately scarce in uncirculated condition; commemoratives from small Pacific island nations often entered actual circulation rather than being absorbed by collectors at issue.