50 Vatu Marie Curie

Vanuatu has no historical connection to Marie Curie — this is a bullion-adjacent commemorative issued under the common practice of small Pacific island nations licensing their minting authority to European distributors, typically Coin Invest Trust of Liechtenstein or similar operations. The Reserve Bank of Vanuatu collects a fee; the coins are sold almost exclusively to European and North American collectors and rarely, if ever, circulate in the archipelago itself.