10 Dollars Statue of Liberty

Liberia's early 2000s collector series exploited a legal gray area: the country's coinage laws permitted private minting houses — primarily operating out of Germany and the United States — to produce coins bearing Liberian authority with essentially no government oversight of subject matter. The Statue of Liberty issue was one of dozens of thematic pieces churned out for the souvenir and novelty market during this period, bearing denominations that bore no relationship to any circulating monetary reality in a country then consumed by civil conflict under Charles Taylor's regime.