The Gorch Fock is the German Navy's training tall ship, launched in 1958 and still active — one of the longest-serving sail training vessels in the world. Vanuatu has no naval tradition connected to her, making this a purely commercial numismatic issue targeting collectors of maritime and military memorabilia rather than any domestic market. The coin's steel-and-colored-paper composite construction is a production method associated with the Coin Invest Trust of Liechtenstein, which has manufactured similar novelty issues for numerous small Pacific issuing authorities.
The Gorch Fock is the German Navy's training tall ship, launched in 1958 and still active — one of the longest-serving sail training vessels in the world. Vanuatu has no naval tradition connected to her, making this a purely commercial numismatic issue targeting collectors of maritime and military memorabilia rather than any domestic market. The coin's steel-and-colored-paper composite construction is a production method associated with the Coin Invest Trust of Liechtenstein, which has manufactured similar novelty issues for numerous small Pacific issuing authorities.