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10 Dollars Hyena
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA / THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE / 2002 |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a full-color photographic portrait of a young hyena facing the viewer, its brown and black facial markings rendered in vivid naturalistic detail against a blurred green field background. The image fills the central medallion of the coin, framed by a raised polished silver border. The legend AFRICAN WILDLIFE arcs around the upper and left portions of the border in incuse capital letters, while the denomination TEN DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower border, flanked on each side by a five-pointed star. The overall design is characteristic of the African Wildlife commemorative series issued for Liberia. |
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Liberia's wildlife coin program of the late 1990s and early 2000s was a frankly commercial operation — the Central Bank licensed its name to foreign distributors, primarily based in the United States and Germany, who designed, produced, and sold these issues with little connection to actual Liberian monetary policy. Most never reached Liberia at all.
KM# 606 is silver-plated copper, a detail that matters for long-term preservation: the copper substrate will telegraph through any breach in plating, and edge nicks accelerate this noticeably.