Liberia has issued commemorative five-dollar pieces honoring every U.S. president in long-running series stretching back to the 1990s, producing them in quantity for the collector market rather than domestic circulation. Buchanan appears here as part of that program — a fitting subject for a coin nobody was meant to spend, given that his presidency effectively ended with the Union dissolving around him.
Liberia has issued commemorative five-dollar pieces honoring every U.S. president in long-running series stretching back to the 1990s, producing them in quantity for the collector market rather than domestic circulation. Buchanan appears here as part of that program — a fitting subject for a coin nobody was meant to spend, given that his presidency effectively ended with the Union dissolving around him.