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50 Vatu Marie Curie
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Vatu (1982-date) |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Vanuatu occupy the central field, depicting a Melanesian warrior in traditional dress standing before a curved boar's tusk. Below the arms, a scroll bears the national motto legend. The denomination appears above the arms, with the country name and issuing authority inscribed around the design in the legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | RIPABLIK 50 VATU BLONG LONG GOD YUMI STANAP VANUATU (Translation: Republic of Vanuatu In God We Stand (translated from Bislama)) |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a raised portrait bust of Marie Curie facing three-quarters to the right, rendered in fine relief against a mirror-polished field. To the left, a color-applied laboratory Erlenmeyer flask graduated to 250 ml is depicted alongside a mass of yellow-green radioactive ore, both applied in vivid polychrome enamel. The name MARIE CURIE appears in large letters across the upper field, with the dates 1867-1934 inscribed below, and a facsimile of Curie's signature rendered in cursive across the central field. The year of issue, 2014, appears in the lower exergue. |
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