1 Cent O.A.U. Meeting

The Organisation of African Unity summit held in Monrovia in July 1979 was a significant moment for Liberia under President William Tolbert, who used the hosting role to project stability abroad while domestic tensions were quietly mounting. Less than nine months after this coin entered circulation, Tolbert was assassinated in a military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe — making this commemorative an inadvertent marker of the republic's last year of civilian government for over a decade.