Description
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
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