5 Dollars Berlin Airlift

Liberia's commemorative coinage of the 1990s was largely produced under contract by overseas mints for the collector market, with little meaningful connection to Liberian monetary circulation. This piece marks the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, the 1948–1949 Anglo-American operation that supplied West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked all ground access routes into the city. Over 200,000 flights delivered more than 2.3 million tons of supplies before the Soviets lifted the blockade in May 1949.

KM#467 is one of several thematic issues Liberia released that year targeting the German collector market.