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.
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.