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5 Dollars Air Force One - Boeing 707
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1943-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE 20 00 REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA 5 DOLLARS |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Liberia's commemorative program of the late 1990s and early 2000s was, bluntly, a revenue operation — the Central Bank licensed designs to a foreign distributor targeting collector markets with no meaningful connection to Liberian history or currency. This piece, issued during a period when Liberia was still recovering from the First Liberian Civil War, was never intended for domestic circulation. The Central Bank collected a licensing fee; the coins went straight to foreign dealers.
The specific VC-25A aircraft designated Air Force One entered presidential service in 1990, replacing the aging Boeing VC-137C that had carried every U.S. president since Kennedy.