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5 Dollars Alain Prost
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1943-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ALAIN PROST · FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPION 1985/86/89 $5 |
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Liberia's early 1990s commemorative program was essentially a vehicle for foreign coin dealers and distributors, not a domestic monetary policy decision. These pieces were struck for the international collector market while Liberia itself was in the midst of a catastrophic civil war — Charles Taylor's NPFL and Prince Johnson's factions had already killed tens of thousands and displaced much of the population by 1992. The Central Bank issuing collectible silver sports coins while the country fractured was, to put it plainly, a revenue arrangement with overseas minting contractors.
Prost had claimed his fourth Formula One World Championship in 1989 with Ferrari — correction, with McLaren — and retired after 1991 before returning with Williams in 1993.