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5 Dollars James Cook
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Reverse lettering | JAMES COOK 1729-1779 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Liberia's late-1990s commemorative program was essentially a licensing operation — the republic issued hundreds of silver pieces themed around foreign explorers, world leaders, and pop culture figures, with nearly all of them produced by overseas private mints for the collector market rather than any domestic circulation purpose. Cook has no historical connection to Liberia whatsoever.
The KM#572 attribution places this squarely within that sprawling series. Collector demand has always been modest; the secondary market treats most Liberian commemoratives of this period as generic bullion-adjacent pieces regardless of subject matter.