20 Dollars Felix Lope de Vega

Liberia's early 2000s commemorative program was prolific to the point of notoriety — the country issued hundreds of collector coins during this period, most with no domestic circulation whatsoever, produced entirely for the international numismatic market by foreign mints under licensing arrangements. Lope de Vega, the 17th-century Spanish dramatist credited with authoring somewhere between 800 and 1,800 plays depending on the source, had no particular connection to Liberia.

The licensing model meant Liberian authorities collected a flat fee while private distributors absorbed the commercial risk.