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50 Vatu Summer Olympics - Sprinter
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Weight | 3.11 g |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic high-relief depiction of a male sprinter in mid-stride dominates the central field, rendered in a naturalistic athletic style with the figure leaning aggressively forward in a running pose. Horizontal lines below the figure suggest a running track. The legend OLYMPIC GAMES 2000 is arranged along the upper left arc of the field. The denomination 50 and the currency name VATU appear to the lower right of the sprinter figure. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Vanuatu's Olympic coinage program in the late 1990s was a revenue exercise familiar across Pacific island nations — small states with minimal Olympic participation history licensing their minting authority to produce collector pieces for the international market. The .585 fineness is notably below the standard .999 or .9167 gold used in most sovereign bullion issues, a deliberate cost-reduction measure that kept production economics viable for low-mintage commemoratives with limited secondary market depth.