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100 Dollars Mahatma Gandhi
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Liberia occupies the central field, depicting a three-masted sailing ship on the sea, a palm tree, a rising sun, and a plough with a spade in the foreground, all within a shield surmounted by a dove in flight. A scroll across the shield bears the national motto THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE. The date 1997 flanks the shield to left and right. The outer legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA arcs above, while the denomination 100 DOLLARS Au. and the fineness 999.9 appear along the lower periphery. A beaded border frames the entire design. The Pobjoy Mint mark PM appears at lower left. |
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| Mintage | 1997 PM - - 5,000 |
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Liberia's 1990s gold commemorative program was essentially a licensing operation — the government authorized dozens of issues featuring world figures with little connection to Liberian history, selling them almost exclusively to Western collector markets through third-party distributors. Gandhi's appearance here has nothing to do with any diplomatic or historical tie between the two nations.
KM#312 is one of several dozen portrait-themed issues from this period, most struck at European contract mints. Collector demand has remained modest; the series never developed a serious following, and many issues trade close to melt.