10 Vatu Megalodon

The megalodon-themed coinage from Pacific island nations has become a predictable commercial category, but Vanuatu's issues carry a specific institutional footnote worth noting: the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu has operated since 1980, the year of independence from joint British-French condominium rule — one of the more unusual colonial arrangements in modern history, where two competing administrations simultaneously governed the same territory under separate legal and currency systems. The vatu itself replaced both the Australian dollar and the French Pacific franc upon independence.

At 155 grams and 60 mm, this is bullion-adjacent territory — a numismatic product rather than a circulating issue, almost certainly produced by a contracted private mint rather than struck domestically.