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5 Dollars German Unification

Issuer Central Bank of Liberia
Year 1998
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Composition Copper-nickel
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Reverse script Latin
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Edge Reeded
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Liberia's Central Bank issued a long series of commemorative five-dollar pieces through the 1990s and early 2000s, many produced by foreign private mints targeting the collector market rather than domestic circulation. This German Unification piece fits squarely in that category — Liberia had no particular connection to the event, and the coins were sold almost exclusively to thematic collectors outside the country.

German reunification itself was formally completed on October 3, 1990, eight years before this coin was struck.

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