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10 Dollars Madagascar - Red-ruffed Lemur
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the national coat of arms of Liberia centrally positioned in the field, featuring a sailing ship on the sea, a dove, a palm tree, and a rising sun above a shield, all enclosed within a decorative cartouche. Flanking the arms are the date numerals '20' and '04' on either side. The outer legend reads 'REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA' along the upper rim and is repeated in smaller text within the design, with 'THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE' arcing around the inner circle. The lower portion bears the denomination '10 DOLLARS' and the inscriptions 'FINE SILVER' and 'FINE GOLD .999/1.000' in the lower field. The entire design is struck in high-relief proof finish with a deeply mirrored background. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Liberia's early 2000s commemorative program was, bluntly, a collector-market operation rather than a circulation exercise — the country was emerging from civil war and had largely dollarized in practice. These silver issues were produced by private minting contractors and distributed almost exclusively through international coin dealers, never appearing in Liberian commerce. The red-ruffed lemur, endemic to Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula, had no geographic or political connection to Liberia whatsoever; the issuer simply licensed exotic wildlife themes that sold reliably in the European and American collector markets.