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20 Dollars ETR 450 'Pendolino'
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE 2003 REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The ETR 450 entered service with Italian State Railways in 1988 as the first tilting train capable of navigating the peninsula's notoriously curved mainlines at competitive speeds without the cost of entirely new infrastructure. Liberia's Central Bank issued a sprawling series of transport-themed commemoratives in the early 2000s — coins with no domestic circulation relevance whatsoever, produced almost entirely for the international collector market through third-party licensing arrangements.
The KM# 648 assignment places this squarely within that crowded Liberian commemorative program, which covered subjects from Apollo missions to Formula 1 cars with equal indifference to national connection.