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10 Dollars Johnny Herbert
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1943-date) |
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| Obverse description | The Liberian coat of arms is depicted centrally, featuring a sailing ship on the sea, a palm tree, a rising sun, a dove in flight, a shield with a plow and shovel, and crossed spades beneath, all enclosed within a circular scroll bearing the legend 'THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE' and a lower scroll inscribed 'REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA'. The date 1996 is divided to the left and right of the shield in the field. The outer legend 'REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA' arcs above, while 'ONE OUNCE 10 DOLLARS FINE SILVER' is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Reverse description | A facing portrait bust of British Formula One racing driver Johnny Herbert dominates the center of the field, depicted in his racing suit. To the left of his portrait is a racing helmet, and to the right a Union Jack flag on a pole. Below the portrait, a detailed Formula One racing car is shown in profile, framed by an open laurel wreath. The curved legend 'JOHNNY HERBERT · FORMULA ONE' arcs across the upper field, and the denomination '$10' appears in the exergue below the racing car. |
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Johnny Herbert's 1995 Formula One season — the year this coin commemorates, issued the following year — produced one of the more unlikely championship victories in recent memory. Driving for Benetton, Herbert won at Silverstone and Monza, both times benefiting from the attrition of faster cars. Liberia's numismatic program in the 1990s was essentially a commercial licensing operation, with foreign minting houses producing themed collector coins that bore little relationship to the country's actual economy or monetary needs. Herbert was a peculiar choice even by those standards.