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1/2 Dollar Pattern
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 1889 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#Pn46 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a palm tree on a small island, flanking the denomination numeral 50 to the left and the abbreviation CS. to the right, with a steam-powered sailing vessel visible to the right of the palm tree. The date 1889 appears in the exergue at the bottom, with a dentilated border encircling the entire reverse field. |
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Liberia's 1889 pattern coinage was produced as the republic explored expanding its official currency system, which at the time relied heavily on foreign coins in everyday trade. The KM#Pn46 copper-nickel striking is one of several denominations tested that year, almost certainly produced at a U.S. facility — Liberia had no domestic mint and contracted American coiners throughout the nineteenth century.
Pattern status means this piece never entered circulation, surviving instead in small numbers as a trial or submission piece.