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5 Dollars The Blue Train
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Diameter | 38.60 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2011 - Proof - 1,923 |
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The Blue Train — officially the Shosholoza Meyl Blue Train — has operated between Pretoria and Cape Town since 1946, though its origins trace to a luxury service run by the old Cape Government Railways in the 1890s. Liberia's involvement is purely commercial: the Central Bank issued dozens of transport-themed commemoratives in the 2000s and 2010s, most struck by foreign mints under licensing arrangements with virtually no connection to the subject matter.
KM#1015 is part of a sprawling series. Collector demand is driven almost entirely by the train's subject rather than the issuing authority.