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.
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.