2 Cents Pattern

Liberia's 1890 coinage patterns were produced in London, almost certainly by the Heaton Mint in Birmingham, which handled the bulk of Liberian coinage contracts during this period. Whether this 2 cents piece was ever seriously intended for circulation is unclear — Liberia's monetary system in the late nineteenth century was plagued by chronic shortages of subsidiary coinage, yet pattern proposals routinely died in committee without explanation.

The X#Pn5 reference places it firmly in pattern territory, with no confirmed circulation strike of this denomination from this year.