Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Dollars Greenwich Meridian
| Issuer | Government of Liberia |
|---|---|
| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10 Dollars |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Reeded |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Liberia's prolific commemorative coinage program of the late 1990s and early 2000s was largely driven by a licensing arrangement with a German firm, Boyko, producing coins that had little connection to Liberian history or commerce. This piece, marking the Greenwich Meridian, fits squarely in that category — a coin conceived for the international collector market around the millennium, not for circulation in Monrovia.
The Greenwich Meridian itself was fixed at its current longitude by international agreement at the 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., where 22 of 25 nations voted to adopt the line passing through the Royal Observatory as the global prime meridian. France held out and continued using the Paris Meridian on official maps until 1911.