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5 Dollars Military Museum
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Liberia occupies the central field, depicting a three-masted sailing ship approaching shore, a palm tree, and a rising sun above a plow and a dove in flight, all within a shield surmounted by a scroll bearing the national motto. The date 1999 is divided by the shield to left and right. An outer legend reading REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA arcs along the upper periphery, while a secondary legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA appears on a ribbon beneath the shield. The denomination 5 DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower border. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE 1999 REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA 5 DOLLARS |
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Liberia's late-1990s commemorative program was essentially a commercial licensing operation run through foreign minting agents — primarily in China and Germany — with the Liberian government receiving royalties on designs it had little hand in creating. This coin was issued while the country was between civil wars, the first having ended in 1996 and the second beginning in 1999, meaning the national treasury had no meaningful infrastructure to oversee what was being struck in its name.