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5 Dollars George S. Patton
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1072 |
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| Reverse description | A large multicolored portrait of United States Army General George S. Patton dominates the central field, depicting him in three-quarter profile wearing a steel combat helmet and military uniform with a fur-collared jacket. The background features a vivid full-color battle scene with military aircraft, artillery, and arid landscape, framed by engraved stone-effect borders at left and right bearing additional relief-engraved battle imagery. The curved legend THE GREATEST WARLORDS OF HISTORY arcs along the upper periphery, while the date 2011 appears to the right in the field. A nameplate inscribed GEORGE S. PATTON is positioned below the portrait in the lower central field. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE GREATEST WARLORDS OF HISTORY 2011 GEORGE S. PATTON |
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Liberia has issued commemorative coinage under its own authority since the 1970s, but the program became increasingly prolific — and increasingly detached from any domestic monetary function — through the 1990s and 2000s, when foreign coin marketing firms effectively contracted the sovereign issuing rights to produce collectibles for the international market. This piece is a product of that arrangement, not of any Liberian policy decision regarding Patton specifically.
Patton died in Heidelberg on December 21, 1945, from complications following a car accident twelve days earlier — an ending so anticlimactic relative to his career that it generated conspiracy theories almost immediately.