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20 Dollars Year of the Tiger
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse field features a full-colour applied image depicting a tiger partially concealed within dense bamboo undergrowth, rendered in a naturalistic artistic style with vivid orange, yellow, and black tones. The tiger faces left, its striped body largely obscured by the tall stalks of vegetation surrounding it, conveying a sense of stealth and power in its natural habitat. A beaded inner border frames the coloured insert, with the reeded edge of the coin visible beyond. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Liberia's late-1990s commemorative program was largely driven by overseas marketing firms rather than the Liberian government's own monetary planning — these pieces were designed, distributed, and sold almost entirely outside Liberia itself. The country was mid-civil war in 1998, with Charles Taylor consolidating power after the 1997 elections widely criticized by international observers.
KM#343 belongs to a sprawling lunar series that flooded the collector market during this period, most with mintages never formally published by the issuing authority.