Liberia's prolific commemorative program of the early 2000s leaned heavily on sports licensing, producing dozens of issues tied to national football squads ahead of the 2006 World Cup qualifying cycle. These pieces were struck for the collector market and never circulated in Liberia — a country whose own currency at the time was undergoing a slow recovery following the devastation of back-to-back civil wars that had essentially collapsed the domestic economy through the 1990s.
Liberia's prolific commemorative program of the early 2000s leaned heavily on sports licensing, producing dozens of issues tied to national football squads ahead of the 2006 World Cup qualifying cycle. These pieces were struck for the collector market and never circulated in Liberia — a country whose own currency at the time was undergoing a slow recovery following the devastation of back-to-back civil wars that had essentially collapsed the domestic economy through the 1990s.