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25 Dollars Amethyst
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1943-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Liberia has issued collectible bullion and novelty coinage under licensing arrangements for decades, with most pieces destined entirely for the collector market rather than any form of circulation. This piece, with its inlaid amethyst fragment, belongs to a genre of micro-gold issues — fractional weights well under a gram — produced largely by European minting houses under contract and sold through international dealers at significant premiums over spot.
The amethyst inclusion is decorative, not incidental; quartz-family inlays of this kind are laser-fitted during the striking or post-strike finishing process.