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10 Dollars Mao Zedong
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | PM Pobjoy Mint, Surrey, United Kingdom (1965-2023) |
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Liberia's 1990s commemorative program was, bluntly, a revenue operation — the country was deep in civil war under Charles Taylor and rival factions, with the legitimate government issuing coins largely for foreign collector markets rather than domestic circulation. This piece had no meaningful presence inside Liberia itself.
Mao Zedong died in September 1976, and China's relationship with African nations — including Liberia — had been built substantially on infrastructure diplomacy throughout the 1960s and 70s. KM#256 is one of several foreign-issued Mao commemoratives that emerged in this era targeting Asian collector markets through Western Pacific distributors.