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10 Vatu Bastille Day
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Weight | 0.5 g |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Vanuatu displayed prominently in the central field, depicting a Melanesian warrior standing before a curved boar's tusk. Below the arms, a scroll bears the national motto in Bislama. The date appears above the arms, with the legend RIPABLIK BLONG VANUATU encircling the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | PRISE DE LA BASTILLE 10 VATU Au999 (Translation: Capture of the Bastille) |
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Vanuatu's connection to Bastille Day runs deeper than colonial nostalgia. The archipelago was administered under the Anglo-French Condominium — locally nicknamed the "Pandemonium" — from 1906 until independence in 1980, and France's national holiday was observed throughout that period as an official occasion. This small-denomination gold piece belongs to a broader wave of low-weight bullion issues produced for the collector market, where the face value is purely nominal against the metal content.