1/4 Dollar Pattern

Liberia's 1889 pattern coinage was produced as part of an evaluation process to establish a workable domestic currency for a republic that had been financially dependent on foreign coin — primarily U.S. currency — since its founding. The copper-nickel quarter dollar pattern was never adopted for circulation, and the series as a whole saw only limited trial production, most likely at a U.S. facility.

KM#Pn30 survivors are genuinely scarce, as pattern pieces of this period were not distributed and many were melted or lost to institutional neglect in the decades following evaluation.