10 Dollars Birth of the Movies - 1895

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.