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50 Vatu de Bougainville
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | RIPABLIK 1994 BLONG VANATU (Translation: Republic of Vanuatu In God We Stand) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bougainville Island — despite its name appearing on a Vanuatu coin — is geographically part of Papua New Guinea, not Vanuatu. The island was named after French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who passed through the Solomon Islands chain in 1768 during his circumnavigation of the globe. Vanuatu's use of the Bougainville name here likely references the explorer directly rather than the island, capitalizing on the broader Pacific heritage theme common to commemorative programs from small island nations in the early 1990s.
KM#21 is a low-mintage silver commemorative; surviving population data in major registry services is thin.