Evidence coverage: 1945–1981. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Vatu succeeds the New Hebrides franc.
1 New Hebrides franc per 1 Vanuatu vatuV0156 · Vatu succeeds the New Hebrides franc.
C806Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
The New Hebrides franc was renamed vatu on 1 January 1981; vatu notes followed on 22 March 1982. Old New Hebrides-franc notes and Australian currency ceased legal tender on 1 April 1983.
C539The 1945 Pacific grouping explicitly includes the New Hebrides. This does not date the subsequent separation of its monetary arrangements from the other CFP territories.
C805Vatu succeeds the New Hebrides franc.
C806New Hebrides franc issues continue the Pacific-franc system established in 1945, with IEOM issuance from 1967. This is a regional issue lineage; the date of separate exchange arrangements is not claimed.
C979Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
The New Hebrides franc was renamed vatu on 1 January 1981; vatu notes followed on 22 March 1982. Old New Hebrides-franc notes and Australian currency ceased legal tender on 1 April 1983.
Indexed monetary-reform paragraphs
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The 1945 Pacific grouping explicitly includes the New Hebrides. This does not date the subsequent separation of its monetary arrangements from the other CFP territories.
Article 3
Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
Franc handoff v2 reports: Original gazette scan inspected visually through a mirror; not independently reopened in this merge.
Vatu succeeds the New Hebrides franc.
Vanuatu, PDF p.261
Historical reference, not a 2026 legal-status audit.
Only selected country milestones used.
New Hebrides franc issues continue the Pacific-franc system established in 1945, with IEOM issuance from 1967. This is a regional issue lineage; the date of separate exchange arrangements is not claimed.
Annex 2, II.C.2, paragraphs on 25–26 December 1945
Monetary separation from the metropolitan franc, not proof that every local predecessor was identical or that wartime circulation was uninterrupted.