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1 Dollar Juan Manuel Fangio
| Issuer | Government of Liberia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a colorized portrait of five-time Formula 1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, depicted wearing his characteristic racing helmet and goggles pushed up on his forehead, rendered in photographic color applied to the central field. The portrait is set within a circular medallion surrounded by a bold chequered pattern in black and silver covering the entire reverse field, evoking the imagery of a racing flag. The legend JUAN MANUEL FANGIO curves along the upper left, with his birth date *24.09.1911 and death date +17.07.1995 inscribed around the circumference of the inner portrait circle. |
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| Reverse lettering | JUAN MANUEL FANGIO *24.09.1911 +17.07.1995 |
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Liberia's early 2000s dollar series is frankly a collector's minefield — the country was in the grip of Charles Taylor's government, civil war was escalating toward the 2003 crisis, and these coins were struck abroad almost certainly by the Pobjoy Mint or a similar private contractor, bearing no meaningful relationship to Liberian domestic commerce. They circulated nowhere.
Fangio won five Formula One World Championships between 1951 and 1957, a record that stood for 46 years until Schumacher surpassed it in 2003 — the year after this coin appeared.