Vanuatu vatu / New Hebrides franc
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- VUV
- Ancestry branch
- French franc
Its place in the family
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Vanuatu vatu / New Hebrides franc
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No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
Vanuatu vatu / New Hebrides franc
CFP franc
French franc
Livre tournois
Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
The New Hebrides franc was renamed vatu on January 1, 1981; vatu notes followed on March 22, 1982. Old New Hebrides-franc notes and Australian currency ceased legal tender on April 1, 1983. [1]
Vatu succeeds the New Hebrides franc. [2]
Turning points
Historical framework membership
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. [3]
Regional currency continuity
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. [4]
Sources and evidence
- Reserve Bank of Vanuatu · History
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025
- Journal officiel, 26 December 1945 · Journal officiel, 26 December 1945 — Decree 45-0136
- Assemblée nationale / Hervé Gaymard · Rapport 2270, 27 January 2010: monetary history of the French Pacific
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“Vanuatu vatu / New Hebrides franc.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-13; data version v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000275.html