5 Dollars Karlsplatz Station

Liberia's late-1990s commemorative program was essentially a licensing operation — the government authorized dozens of collector coins with no connection to Liberian history, economy, or culture, selling the sovereign issuing privilege to foreign distributors targeting the European and American novelty market. This piece, honoring Otto Wagner's Vienna Stadtbahn pavilions completed in 1899, was timed to the centenary of that project.

Wagner's Karlsplatz stations were nearly demolished in the 1960s before a preservation campaign saved them.