200 Vatu New Bank Building

Issued to mark the opening of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu's new headquarters in Port Vila, this piece reflects the institution's efforts to assert financial identity for a nation that only gained independence in 1980 and replaced the joint Anglo-French Condominium's currency arrangements with the vatu in 1981. The bank itself had operated for nearly three decades before occupying purpose-built premises substantial enough to warrant a commemorative coin.