Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December 1979, famously asking that the ceremonial banquet be cancelled and its $192,000 cost donated to the poor in Calcutta. Liberia had no meaningful connection to either event. This is a privately commissioned collector piece struck under license arrangements that the Central Bank of Liberia extended to various foreign minting operations throughout the 1990s and 2000s — a revenue practice that generated hundreds of thematically unrelated commemorative issues bearing Liberian authority.
KM# 797 sits in a catalog sequence crowded with similarly opportunistic issues from the same period.
Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December 1979, famously asking that the ceremonial banquet be cancelled and its $192,000 cost donated to the poor in Calcutta. Liberia had no meaningful connection to either event. This is a privately commissioned collector piece struck under license arrangements that the Central Bank of Liberia extended to various foreign minting operations throughout the 1990s and 2000s — a revenue practice that generated hundreds of thematically unrelated commemorative issues bearing Liberian authority.
KM# 797 sits in a catalog sequence crowded with similarly opportunistic issues from the same period.