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50 Vatu Earth Pigeons

Issuer Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Year 1992
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Weight 31.47 g
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Obverse description The national coat of arms of Vanuatu occupies the central field, depicting a Melanesian warrior holding a spear and standing before a curved boar's tusk. Below the arms, a scroll bears the national motto in Bislama. The denomination is inscribed above the coat of arms, and the legends encircling the design include the country name and year of issue.
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Edge Reeded
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Vanuatu's didactic conservation coinage of the early 1990s targeted the endemic fruit pigeons of the archipelago at a moment when logging concessions were accelerating habitat loss across the outer islands. The Vanuatu government had signed onto CITES protections, and these issues were partly diplomatic currency — proof of environmental commitment to international bodies.

KM#13 was struck by the Royal Australian Mint under contract.

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