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1 Cent Pattern
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Currency | Dollar pattern strikes (1847-1890) |
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| Reverse description | A tall, detailed palm tree dominates the center of the field, rising from a coastal landscape that includes low-lying vegetation, a sailing vessel, and what appears to be a cannon at lower right, evoking the Liberian shoreline. The denomination ONE CENT is arranged vertically on either side of the palm trunk, reading left and right respectively. The date 1866 appears in the lower exergual area, with a small dot to its right. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 1866 |
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Liberia's 1866 pattern coinage was produced during a period when the republic was actively trying to establish a coherent domestic monetary system — American Colonization Society dollars and foreign coins still dominated everyday exchange. Pattern issues of this era were struck in Philadelphia, where the U.S. Mint took on contract work for smaller nations lacking their own facilities. Whether this piece was ever seriously considered for circulation or existed purely as a die trial is unresolved; no regular-issue 1-cent copper coinage entered production for Liberia until years later.