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| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Technique | Colored, Milled |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2002 |
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Liberia's early 2000s sports commemorative program produced dozens of licensed club football issues, most struck by the Bavarian State Mint or private German minting houses supplying the collector novelty market rather than any genuine monetary authority. FC Bayern's 1987 Intercontinental Cup win — a 1–0 defeat of Peñarol in Tokyo — was already fifteen years old by the time this coin was issued, making the choice of anniversary year difficult to explain outside of pure opportunism.
The colored sticker applied over the silver planchet, rather than enameling, dates this squarely within a short-lived production trend that aged poorly.