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50 Vatu World Cup Football
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Weight | 31.47 g |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic full-length figure of a footballer in mid-stride is depicted in high relief, lunging forward to strike a football positioned to the lower left of the field. Diagonal lines in the background suggest a stadium grandstand or goal netting, conveying motion and depth. The legend WORLD CUP '94 arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 50 VATU is inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Vanuatu's commemorative coinage of this period was largely produced for the collector export market rather than domestic circulation — the islands had minimal numismatic infrastructure, and issues like this one were effectively contracted out to foreign minting houses and sold through international distributors. The 1994 FIFA World Cup, hosted jointly across nine American cities, generated an enormous wave of licensed commemorative issues from nations with no meaningful connection to the tournament.
Vanuatu fielded no team and had no qualification path remotely in view.