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20 Dollars Civil War - Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA 2001 |
| Reverse description | A detailed historical scene depicting the surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, showing General Robert E. Lee seated at a table signing the terms of surrender before General Ulysses S. Grant and attending officers, rendered in high relief against a dark proof field. The legend CIVIL WAR - THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE 1865 arcs along the upper rim, and the denomination $20 appears in the lower exergue. |
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Liberia's early-2000s commemorative program was aggressively commercial, producing dozens of legal-tender issues with no meaningful connection to the country — this piece among them. The surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, ended the principal Confederate armies' resistance after Grant encircled Lee's forces near the courthouse village, cutting off the last viable retreat toward Lynchburg.
Mintage controls on these Liberian-issued American Civil War pieces were never rigorously published, and the series was largely marketed through Franklin Mint-style distribution channels rather than through numismatic networks. Secondary market prices have reflected that from the start.