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5 Dollars History of Railroads - China Railways typ SY
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The arms of the Republic of Liberia occupy the central field, depicting a shield bearing a sailing ship at sea beneath a rising sun with a palm tree to the right, surmounted by a scroll inscribed THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE. The shield is supported by a dove to the left and flanked by decorative foliage. The date 2011 is divided by the arms, with 20 to the left and 11 to the right. The outer legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 5 DOLLARS appears along the lower periphery on a ribbon scroll, with a secondary legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA inscribed within the lower portion of the arms. |
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| Reverse lettering | HISTORY OF RAILROADS CHINA RAILWAYS TYP SY |
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Liberia's long-running History of Railroads series, produced through licensing arrangements with private minting firms rather than any domestic coinage infrastructure, targeted the international collector market almost exclusively. The SY class was a Chinese steam locomotive built from the 1960s through the 1990s — one of the last mass-produced steam designs anywhere in the world, used heavily in industrial and mining operations well into the 2000s.
China retired its last revenue steam operations on national railways around 2005, though SY locomotives continued working in collieries for years afterward.