Liberia's habit of issuing commemorative dollars for events entirely unrelated to Liberian history was commercially driven — these pieces were produced for the collector market, not circulation, and the series this coin belongs to was distributed primarily through European and American coin dealers in the early 2000s. The 1989 crackdown it commemorates killed an unknown number of people; Chinese government figures have never been released, and estimates from declassified British diplomatic cables run as high as 10,000.
Liberia's habit of issuing commemorative dollars for events entirely unrelated to Liberian history was commercially driven — these pieces were produced for the collector market, not circulation, and the series this coin belongs to was distributed primarily through European and American coin dealers in the early 2000s. The 1989 crackdown it commemorates killed an unknown number of people; Chinese government figures have never been released, and estimates from declassified British diplomatic cables run as high as 10,000.