Liberia's practice of issuing commemorative dollars featuring foreign heads of state had little to do with domestic monetary needs — these pieces were produced almost entirely for the international collector market, a revenue stream the Liberian government leaned on heavily through the 1990s. De Gaulle died in 1970, making this a 25-year posthumous issue with no particular anniversary logic behind the date.
KM#144 is one of dozens of similar Liberian commemoratives from this period, many struck by the Pobjoy Mint or affiliated private minters on contract.
Liberia's practice of issuing commemorative dollars featuring foreign heads of state had little to do with domestic monetary needs — these pieces were produced almost entirely for the international collector market, a revenue stream the Liberian government leaned on heavily through the 1990s. De Gaulle died in 1970, making this a 25-year posthumous issue with no particular anniversary logic behind the date.
KM#144 is one of dozens of similar Liberian commemoratives from this period, many struck by the Pobjoy Mint or affiliated private minters on contract.