200 Dollars International Year of Disabled Persons

The International Year of Disabled Persons was declared by the United Nations for 1981, and Liberia — like several small nations dependent on seigniorage revenue — issued commemorative gold well after the fact. The two-year lag between the UN observance and this 1983 striking was not unusual for Liberia's commemorative program of that period, which was managed less as a national numismatic statement than as a foreign-market revenue operation.

KM#49 was struck in relatively small quantities for collector sale abroad, primarily in the United States and Europe.