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20 Dollars Eleftherios Venizelos
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A front-facing portrait bust of Eleftherios Venizelos, the celebrated Cretan Greek statesman and Prime Minister of Greece, occupies the central field of the reverse. Behind the figure, an ancient Greek temple — rendered in fine relief — forms a detailed architectural backdrop evoking classical antiquity. The legend 'ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS' arcs across the upper portion of the field, identifying the subject. The denomination '20 DOLLARS' is inscribed in the lower portion of the reverse field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Liberia's early 2000s foreign-figure commemorative program was frankly a collector-market exercise with no domestic relevance — the country was in the final stretch of Charles Taylor's destabilizing presidency and had no particular connection to Greek liberal nationalism. Venizelos, who dominated Greek politics from the 1910s through the 1930s and orchestrated the country's territorial expansion following the Balkan Wars, appears here as one of dozens of world figures the Liberian mint authority licensed to foreign distributors during this period.
These issues were never intended for Liberian circulation.