About the Design:

Obverse
Coat of Arms

Lettering:
RIPABLIK BLONG VANUATU
1999
LONG GOD YUMI STANAP

Translation:
Republic of Vanuatu
In God we stand

Reverse
Charonia tritonis, or Triton, very large shell that predates upon sea stars, particularly the invading Acanthaster, locally responsible for the destruction of corals.
Here holed as it was used as trumpet.

Lettering:
1
VATU

Edge
Smooth

Comments
Main feature of the Coat of Arms: A Melanesian (native warrior) armed with a spear, standing before a mountain; behind him a boar's tusk and two leaves of the namele (coconut palm).

Composition    Nickel brass
Weight             1.9900 g
Diameter    16.95 mm
Thickness    1.2 mm
Shape            Round