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50 Vatu 1996 Olympic Games-Gymnast
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#44 |
| Obverse description | The national arms of Vanuatu are depicted centrally, featuring a Melanesian warrior holding a spear and standing before a curved boar's tusk, which forms a decorative arc above a scroll bearing the national motto in Bislama. The issuer's name appears in the legend divided across the field, reading 'RIPABLIK BLONG VANUATU,' with the date positioned above the arms. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Vanuatu's Olympic commemorative program in the mid-1990s was typical of small Pacific island nations leveraging their monetary authority to produce collector coins with no practical domestic circulation. The Reserve Bank issued these fractional gold pieces almost entirely for the international numismatic market, and they were never intended to pass through Ni-Vanuatu commerce.
The KM#44 attribution places this among a tight cluster of Vanuatu gold issues from this period, most of which saw extremely limited distribution through specialty dealers in Europe and Asia.