20 Dollars Prohibition Years

Liberia's early 2000s commemorative program was, bluntly, one of the most commercially cynical in modern numismatics — the country licensed its issuing authority to foreign distributors who flooded the market with themed silver pieces aimed squarely at American collectors. This piece is a product of that arrangement, not of any Liberian monetary need or historical connection to Prohibition.

The Volstead Act took effect January 17, 1920. By 1933, federal agents had seized over 1.5 billion dollars' worth of illegal liquor.