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5 Dollars New Vatican Coins, small Version
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a central medallion depicting a papal effigy, surrounded by a ring of twelve stars, evoking the imagery of the European Union and Vatican coinage. Arranged in a circular pattern around the central medallion are facsimile representations of the eight Vatican euro coin denominations, ranging from 1 cent to 2 euro, each showing their respective face values. The legend NEW VATICAN COINS arcs along the upper periphery, while FIVE DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower periphery. A mintmaster's mark B appears in the lower central field. |
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Liberia's practice of licensing its sovereign coinage authority to foreign distributors — primarily European marketing firms — produced a wave of "world coin" issues in the 1990s and 2000s that were designed entirely for the collector market and never approached Liberian shores. This piece, nominally a Liberian five-dollar coin, was produced to capitalize on numismatic interest surrounding Vatican City coinage without being Vatican coinage at all.
The KM# 800 attribution places it squarely within that sprawling Liberian commemorative program, which at its peak encompassed hundreds of distinct types within a single decade.