Liberia's late-1990s and early-2000s collector coin program was a prolific — critics would say shameless — exercise in issuing currency with no intention of circulation, targeting the international novelty market rather than Liberian commerce. Hayes makes an odd subject: the 19th president whose election in 1876 was resolved by a congressional commission after one of the most disputed counts in American history, ending Reconstruction as part of the political compromise that handed him the White House.
The X# prefix in the Unusual World Coins catalog confirms this piece's non-circulating status within Liberian monetary reality.
Liberia's late-1990s and early-2000s collector coin program was a prolific — critics would say shameless — exercise in issuing currency with no intention of circulation, targeting the international novelty market rather than Liberian commerce. Hayes makes an odd subject: the 19th president whose election in 1876 was resolved by a congressional commission after one of the most disputed counts in American history, ending Reconstruction as part of the political compromise that handed him the White House.
The X# prefix in the Unusual World Coins catalog confirms this piece's non-circulating status within Liberian monetary reality.