200 Dollars Presidential Inauguration

Liberia's 1976 Presidential Inauguration issue commemorates the fifth inaugural term of William R. Tolbert Jr., who had assumed the presidency following William Tubman's death in 1971 and was formally inaugurated in his own right in January 1976. Four years later, Tolbert was assassinated during the April 1980 military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe — the first violent overthrow of a Liberian government since the republic's founding. Few commemorative gold issues have aged into such grim historical irony so quickly.