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1 Dollar Dèng Xiǎopíng

Issuer Liberia
Year 1997
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Reference(s) KM#440
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage 1997
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Liberia's late-1990s commemorative program was essentially a commercial operation — the country licensed its minting authority to produce collectible coins bearing foreign heads of state, historical figures, and pop culture subjects for the international novelty market. These pieces never circulated. Dèng Xiǎopíng had died in February 1997, and the timing of this issue aligns squarely with the commemorative wave that followed his death and the Hong Kong handover that July.

The copper composition rather than cupro-nickel signals this was struck to a lower production cost, typical of the mass-market souvenir issues Liberia authorized throughout this period.

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