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10 Dollars Spanish Civil War - 1936/37
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Thickness | 3 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the full coat of arms of the Republic of Liberia centred in the field, depicting a three-masted sailing ship at sea, a palm tree on the shore, a rising sun, a plough, and a shovel. The arms are surmounted by a scroll bearing the national motto THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE and flanked by green laurel branches. The legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA arcs along the upper periphery, with the denomination 10 DOLLARS inscribed along the lower border. The date 2001 is divided to either side of the shield. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Liberia's Central Bank issued a long-running series of commemorative dollars throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, licensing historical subjects with little connection to Liberian history. The Spanish Civil War piece belongs to that output — a coin produced for the collector market, not circulation, by a country whose involvement in the conflict was precisely zero.
The war it commemorates killed an estimated 500,000 people between 1936 and 1939, drawing in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Soviet Russia as proxy belligerents before Franco's Nationalists declared victory in April 1939.