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500 Vatu
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 500 Vatu |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a figure engaged in the traditional Melanesian art of sand drawing, set against a group of men performing customary ceremonial dance. In the background, the Malvatu Mauri building — seat of the National Council of Chiefs, the constitutionally recognised advisory body of traditional chiefly authority — is rendered in the upper field. The composition underscores the cultural and constitutional significance of indigenous tradition in Vanuatu. |
| Reverse lettering | 500 VATU RESERVE BANK BLONG VANUATU |
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Vanuatu's switch to polymer for this denomination came as part of a broader Pacific regionalization of substrate choice, with Note Printing Australia supplying polymer currency to multiple island nations simultaneously. The Guardian® platform, developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia and NPA, was marketed specifically to smaller issuers who needed low-volume runs with high security tolerances — Vanuatu being precisely that kind of client, with a population under 300,000 and limited counterfeiting pressure but real vulnerability to damage from tropical humidity.
P#18 marks a 2017 reissue within a series that NPA has held continuously since 1998, making this one of the longer unbroken printing contracts in the Pacific region.