Liberia's late-1990s commemorative program was frankly a commercial operation aimed squarely at the collector market, with dozens of foreign-subject issues produced under license and sold through international distributors rather than circulated domestically. This piece appeared almost immediately after Diana's death in August 1997, part of a global flood of memorial issues from small issuing authorities with no historic connection to the subject.
KM#466 is one of several Diana types in Liberia's catalog from that year alone.
Liberia's late-1990s commemorative program was frankly a commercial operation aimed squarely at the collector market, with dozens of foreign-subject issues produced under license and sold through international distributors rather than circulated domestically. This piece appeared almost immediately after Diana's death in August 1997, part of a global flood of memorial issues from small issuing authorities with no historic connection to the subject.
KM#466 is one of several Diana types in Liberia's catalog from that year alone.