1/2 Dollar Pattern

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.