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50 Vatu Voyager 1
| Issuer | Vanuatu (1980-date) |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 50 Vatu |
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| Obverse lettering | RIPABLIK 1992 BLONG VANUATU LONG GOD YUMI STANAP (Translation: Republic of Vanuatu In God We Stand) |
| Reverse description | A detailed engraving of the NASA Voyager 1 space probe dominates the central field, rendered with precise mechanical detail including its large high-gain parabolic dish antenna, extended boom arms, and bus structure. To the left, a large planetary body partially fills the field, while a ringed planet — Saturn — appears to the right in the middle ground. A sweeping orbital trajectory arc curves across the lower portion of the field. The curved legend above reads 'VOYAGER 1 · 1977', commemorating the spacecraft's launch year, and the denomination '50 VATU' is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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Vanuatu issued this piece as part of a broader wave of commemorative silver coinage that Pacific island nations adopted in the late 1980s and early 1990s — a revenue strategy made possible by licensing agreements with foreign minting houses rather than any domestic minting capacity. The Voyager 1 subject is purely commercial, timed loosely to ongoing public interest in the probe's interstellar trajectory rather than any specific mission anniversary in 1992.
Voyager 1 had by that point crossed the orbit of Pluto, already over a decade into a journey with no scheduled terminus.