20 Dollars Cave lion; colourized

Liberia has operated as a licensing issuer for the international commemorative coin market since the 1990s, contracting production through European mints — primarily in Germany and Austria — with no meaningful connection between the depicted subject and the issuing nation. The cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea) vanished from the fossil record roughly 13,000 years ago, known almost entirely through Pleistocene cave art at sites like Chauvet and Lascaux and a handful of skeletal remains from permafrost deposits.