1 Dollar European Currency - Belgium

Liberia's early 2000s dollar series exploited a legal loophole allowing the country to issue commemorative coinage with essentially no obligation to back it with reserves or circulate it domestically. The Belgian franc had already ceased to be legal tender on 1 January 2002 — the same year this piece was struck — making it a memorial to a currency that had existed in some form since 1832.

These pieces were produced for the collector market and never circulated. The silver plating over copper kept costs low enough to sell at significant markup through television shopping channels and mail-order catalogs throughout Europe.