The Organisation of African Unity held its sixteenth summit in Monrovia in July 1979, and Liberia issued this piece to mark the occasion. It was an unusual move — the OAU summit had no established tradition of host-nation commemorative coinage, making this one of the few instances where a member state converted a routine low-denomination circulation type specifically to mark the meeting.
The Organisation of African Unity held its sixteenth summit in Monrovia in July 1979, and Liberia issued this piece to mark the occasion. It was an unusual move — the OAU summit had no established tradition of host-nation commemorative coinage, making this one of the few instances where a member state converted a routine low-denomination circulation type specifically to mark the meeting.