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5 Dollars Reunification of Germany
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The central device depicts a frontal view of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, rendered in fine relief with its characteristic Doric columns and attic story clearly delineated. In the lower foreground, a large crowd of celebrants is shown gathered before the gate, several figures waving flags, evoking the jubilant scenes of German reunification in 1990. The curved legend REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY arcs along the upper periphery, with 10th ANNIVERSARY inscribed on a smaller arc immediately below it. The denomination 5 DOLLARS appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse lettering | REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY 10th ANNIVERSARY 5 DOLLARS |
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Liberia made a cottage industry of commemorative issues in the 1990s and early 2000s, licensing its mint authority to produce coins with no connection to the country whatsoever — German reunification among them. The actual event occurred on October 3, 1990, when the German Democratic Republic formally acceded to the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the West German Basic Law, a mechanism that absorbed the East rather than merging two equal states.
This piece was struck a full decade after reunification, placing it firmly in the category of numismatic souvenir rather than contemporary commemorative.