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10 Dollars Birth of the Movies - 1895
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1943-date) |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Liberia occupy the central field, depicting a sailing ship at sea, a palm tree, and a rising sun on a shield, flanked by decorative supporters and a scroll bearing the national motto. The date '20 06' flanks the shield to left and right. The outer legend 'REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA' arcs along the upper rim, while 'REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA' also appears on a ribbon below the shield and '10 DOLLARS' is inscribed in the lower field. The whole is surrounded by a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Liberia has issued commemorative coinage under licensing arrangements with foreign distributors since the 1970s, and this series targeting the 1895 birth-of-cinema theme belongs squarely to that tradition — produced not for domestic circulation but for the international collector market. The Lumière brothers held their first paid public screening in Paris on December 28, 1895, the date most commonly cited as cinema's commercial origin, though Edison's Kinetoscope parlors had been operating since 1894.