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20 Dollars GMAM-Garrat 'Black Beauty'
| Emittent | Liberia |
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| Jahr | 2001 |
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| Währung | Dollar (1943-date) |
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| Reversbeschreibung | The reverse depicts a highly detailed low-relief profile view of the GMAM-Garratt 'Black Beauty' steam locomotive traversing a landscape with scattered scrub vegetation and boulders in the foreground, with a stylised smoke plume extending across the upper field. The series title 'LEGENDS OF THE RAILS - GMAM-GARRATT' arcs along the upper legend, with '"BLACK BEAUTY"' inscribed to the right field. The denomination '20 DOLLARS' appears in the lower exergue. The polished proof fields provide a strong contrast to the frosted locomotive design. |
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| Rand | Reeded |
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The "Black Beauty" is one of several locomotive-themed coins Liberia issued in bulk around 2001, most produced by the German Mint (GMAM) for the international collector market rather than for any domestic monetary purpose. These series were essentially commercial products — licensed themes pressed into legal tender form and sold through overseas distributors. The Garratt articulated locomotive, developed in the early twentieth century by Beyer, Peacock & Company of Manchester, became the dominant freight engine across African railways precisely because its twin-bogie design distributed weight across weak colonial-era track.