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100 Dollars World War II
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed relief depiction of the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato (戦艦大和) sailing to the right across a stylized choppy sea, with billowing smoke rising from the superstructure. Chinese characters reading 戦艦大和 (Battleship Yamato) are inscribed in the upper field above the vessel. The date range (1941-1945) appears in parentheses below the characters, commemorating the ship's service during World War II. To the right of the vessel, the inscription 60th Anniversary marks the commemorative occasion. The date 2005 is placed in the lower exergue, with the fineness mark 999 appearing to its right. |
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Liberia has a long history of issuing commemorative silver for the international collector market rather than domestic circulation, and this piece is squarely in that tradition. The Liberian dollar has had no meaningful purchasing power domestically for decades — a $100 face value in Liberian terms is largely notional.
The World War II commemorative market peaked in the early 2000s as the last surviving veterans aged out of public life, driving collector demand that numerous small-nation mints were happy to supply.