25 Dollars Sesquicentennial of Liberia

Liberia's 1972 sesquicentennial issue commemorates the 150th anniversary of the American Colonization Society's first settler landing at Cape Mesurado in 1822 — a founding that was, from the start, politically contentious both in the United States and among indigenous West African populations already living there. The ACS, backed by figures as ideologically opposed as Henry Clay and John Randolph, saw Liberia as a solution to the "free Black problem" in America rather than a humanitarian project.

The .900 fine specification mirrors U.S. gold coinage standards, a deliberate alignment that persisted in Liberian commemorative issues well into the 1970s.