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500 Francs International Year of the Child, Pattern
| Issuer | New Hebrides (1906-1980) |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a seated indigenous Melanesian woman, shown from the waist upward, cradling a newborn infant in her arms and gazing downward at the child with a tender expression. The figure is rendered in finely detailed high relief, conveying maternal devotion in a style evoking traditional Melanesian art. The bilingual commemorative legend 'L'ANNEE DE L'ENFANT - YEAR OF THE CHILD' curves around the full periphery of the coin. The date '- 1979 -' appears in the lower exergual area, flanked by short dashes. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The New Hebrides was a Franco-British condominium — one of the stranger colonial arrangements in Pacific history, with dual administration, dual currency, and dual legal systems running simultaneously. By 1979, independence negotiations were already underway; Vanuatu would be proclaimed in July 1980. This pattern was struck for the UN's International Year of the Child but never approved for circulation, almost certainly because the issuing authority knew the New Hebrides as a political entity had less than a year left to exist.