10 Dollars The Battle of Arnhem

The Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 was the Allied airborne operation — codenamed Market Garden — that ended in disaster when the 1st British Airborne Division was tasked with holding the Rhine bridge far longer than the operation's planners anticipated. Of the roughly 10,000 men dropped, fewer than 2,500 made it back across the river. Liberia had no involvement in the conflict; this is one of dozens of commemorative issues the country licensed to foreign minting firms throughout the 1990s as a revenue mechanism, with the Liberian government lending its issuing authority in exchange for a fee.