Vorderseite: Landeswappen Vanuatus (vor einem Vulkan stehender melanesischer Häupt­ling mit Speer).
Rückseite: Rinderherde; Palmen.

Front side: Vanuatu's coat of arms (Melanesian chief holding a spear and standing in front of a volcano).
Back side: Herd of cattle; Palm trees.

B101a

Not dated.
Signatures of Philip Shing (as PRESIDENT) and John A. Howard (as GENERAL MANAGER). Melanesian male head as watermark. Solid security thread. Two horizontal 6-digit serial numbers on the front side. Both are printed in black, have a double letter prefix and digits of the same size. Printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., United Kingdom.

Remarks

Introduced on 22. March 1982.

The bold text at the beginning of the description of every variety indicates those elements, which are necessary to identify the correct variety (if any) without any doubt. The date or the remark Not dated is always given.
[Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (P-1); Banknote Book (B101)]