25 Dollars Carl Benz

One of a sprawling series of small-format gold issues produced for Liberia by European trading houses in the mid-2000s, targeting the collector market rather than any genuine circulation need. Liberia had no meaningful domestic gold coinage tradition, and issues like this one were authorized essentially as licensing arrangements. Carl Benz, who built the Patent-Motorwagen in 1885 and founded what would eventually become Mercedes-Benz, is a reliable commercial subject — recognizable enough to sell, prestigious enough to justify the gold format.