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1/4 Dollar Pattern
| Issuer | Republic of Liberia |
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| Year | 1889 |
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| Currency | Dollar pattern strikes (1847-1890) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | IN GOD WE TRUST * QUAR. DOL. 1889 * |
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Liberia's 1889 pattern coinage was produced as part of a broader push to establish a functioning national currency independent of the foreign trade coins — primarily US cents and British coppers — that circulated informally throughout the country. The aluminium composition is deliberate: by the late 1880s, newly industrialized aluminium was being seriously evaluated by several governments as a lightweight, corrosion-resistant coinage metal. It never caught on for circulation issues in Liberia or elsewhere at this scale.
KM#Pn21 is one of several denominations pattern-struck that year, none of which entered production.