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25 Dollars Nefertiti
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE 20 00 REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA 25 DOLLARS |
| Reverse description | A highly detailed left-facing bust portrait of the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti is depicted in the central field, rendered in the style of the iconic painted limestone bust housed in Berlin's Neues Museum. The queen wears her characteristic flat-topped crown and broad collar necklace. The legend NOFRETETE arcs along the upper periphery of the field. The denomination $25 appears to the right of the portrait. |
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Liberia's gold coinage of this period was largely a product of the international collector market rather than domestic monetary policy — the country was in the midst of a devastating civil war in 2000, and these fractional gold pieces were never intended for circulation. They were produced for export sale, primarily targeting European and American collector sets.
The Nefertiti series drew on enduring commercial demand for Egyptian iconography among Western collectors, a market that Liberian licensing arrangements exploited extensively throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s.