5 Dollars George S. Patton

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.