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10 Dollars Princess Louisa
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1943-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | "THE EAST INDIAMAN "PRINCESS LOUISA" WRECKED ON HER WAY TO INDIA ON APRIL 18, 1743 NEAR THE MAYO ISLANDS OF CAPE VERDE" |
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Princess Louisa was a British paddle steamer that sank in the St. Lawrence River in 1831. Liberia's early-2000s novelty coinage program produced a wave of oversized "coins" incorporating embedded objects — shipwreck glass, meteorite fragments, gemstones — marketed almost entirely to collectors outside Africa, with no realistic prospect of circulation. The KM#493 type is a product of that trade rather than any monetary need.
The glass inclusion is the only thing distinguishing individual examples; no two pieces contain identical fragments.