500 Vatu

500 Vatu - obverse500 Vatu - reverse

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Features

Issuer VanuatuVanuatu (1980-date)
Issuing bank Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Period Republic (1980-date)
Type Standard banknote
Year 2017
Value 500 Vatu
500 VUV = USD 4.21
Currency Vatu (1982-date)
Composition Polymer (Guardian®)
Size 135 × 65 mm
Shape Rectangular
Number
N#
214832
References P# 18
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States.
And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

The coat of arms of Vanuatu, depicting a Melanesian warrior superimposed on a boar's tusk, over a scroll that reads "Long God yumi stanap". A map of Vanuatu islands at right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
RESERVE BANK OF VANUATU
FIVE HUNDRED VATU

"Long God yumi stanap" (at coat of arms)

CINQ CENTS VATU
BANQUE DE RESERVE DE VANUATU

Translation: In God We Stand, in Bislama (at coat of arms)

Reverse

Center man at cultural activities of sand drawing, behind a group of men doing a traditional dancing. At back, the Malvatu Mauri or National Council of Chiefs, a formal advisory body of chiefs recognised by the Constitution of the Republic of Vanuatu

Script: Latin

Lettering:
500 VATU

RESERVE BANK BLONG VANUATU

Printer

Note Printing Australia, Melbourne, Australia (1998-date)

Comments

The first two numbers give the last two numbers of the year of issue (20)17

Prefixo: AA, Série #: 17.000.001 - 17.000.100 - Black handwritten signatures - In folder

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Date No. printed VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
2017  100 $ 8.70 66% p#18a : Black handwritten signatures - In folder
2017  $ 9.00 33% p#18b: Standard Issue

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