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20 Dollars Athens Olympic Games - Tennis
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse description | The central field features the coat of arms of the Republic of Liberia, depicting a sailing ship at sea beneath a rising sun, with a palm tree and a plow in the foreground, all enclosed within a wreath. A scroll above the shield bears the national motto REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA and THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE. The legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA arcs along the upper periphery, with a repeated inscription REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA appearing on a ribbon at the base of the shield. The date is split either side of the arms, with 20 to the left and 04 to the right, and the entire design is framed by a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE 20 04 REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA |
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Liberia's Olympic commemorative program in the early 2000s was essentially a licensing operation — the country produced dozens of themed silver issues for the 2004 Athens Games across nearly every sport on the program, sold almost exclusively to the collector market through European distributors. Tennis returned to the Olympics as a full medal sport at Seoul in 1988 after a 64-year absence, a reinstatement that generated enough commercial interest to sustain exactly this kind of peripheral commemorative output for two decades afterward.