Liberia's collector coinage of the 1990s was largely produced by foreign mints under licensing arrangements, with this issue almost certainly struck by the Pobjoy Mint or a comparable European facility rather than anything approaching a Liberian national mint. The country had no meaningful domestic minting infrastructure and used these silver issues primarily as foreign currency earners during a period when the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) had effectively collapsed the formal economy.
Patton died in December 1945 from injuries sustained in a car accident near Mannheim, Germany — twelve days after the collision, never having recovered consciousness.
Liberia's collector coinage of the 1990s was largely produced by foreign mints under licensing arrangements, with this issue almost certainly struck by the Pobjoy Mint or a comparable European facility rather than anything approaching a Liberian national mint. The country had no meaningful domestic minting infrastructure and used these silver issues primarily as foreign currency earners during a period when the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) had effectively collapsed the formal economy.
Patton died in December 1945 from injuries sustained in a car accident near Mannheim, Germany — twelve days after the collision, never having recovered consciousness.