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10 Vatu Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Weight | 15.8 g |
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| Reverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER THE OFFICIAL CORONATION PORTRAIT 10 VATU |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued the year before Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon turned 98, this coin was part of a broader wave of Commonwealth commemoratives produced throughout the 1990s honoring the Queen Mother — a market that had become genuinely saturated by mid-decade. Vanuatu, independent only since 1980 and formerly the jointly administered Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, had no historical connection to the British royal family beyond its Commonwealth membership.
The .500 fineness is notably low for a commemorative silver issue, reflecting the economics of the small-nation collector coin trade rather than any local minting tradition.