5 Dollars Christ and the Apostles, Iacobus Zebedaei

Liberia's early 2000s collector coin program was prolific to the point of absurdity — the country issued hundreds of themed silver dollars and multi-dollar pieces through foreign minting and marketing operations, most with no domestic circulation whatsoever. These were produced primarily for the European and American collector novelty market, with Liberia's government lending its issuing authority in exchange for licensing revenue.

James son of Zebedee, one of twelve in this series, was martyred under Herod Agrippa I around 44 AD — the first of the apostles to be executed, and the only one whose death is recorded in the New Testament itself.