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20 Dollars XXVII Olympic Games - Football
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a dynamic depiction of two male football players in mid-stride competing for a football positioned at the base of the design, rendered in high relief against a stylized background featuring a large Olympic stadium and architectural elements suggestive of a sports venue. The curved legend XXVII OLYMPIC GAMES arcs along the upper rim in bold lettering, while the denomination $20 is inscribed at the bottom of the field in large numerals. |
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| Reverse lettering | XXVII OLYMPIC GAMES $20 |
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Liberia's late-1990s and early-2000s commemorative program was, bluntly, one of the most prolific and commercially cynical in the modern collector market. The Central Bank licensed dozens of silver issues to foreign distributors — primarily operating out of Germany and the United States — with virtually no intended circulation within Liberia itself. The Sydney 2000 football issue is squarely part of that wave: minted to order for the collector trade, not for domestic monetary use.
Liberia had no meaningful football program at the 2000 Games.