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5 Dollars Tsar Bell
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | Царь–колокол ANNA IVANOVNA Анна Иоанновна (Translation: Tsar Bell Anna Ioannovna) |
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The Tsar Bell — cast in Moscow in 1735 under Empress Anna and broken before it ever rang — has become one of history's more ironic monuments. A chunk weighing roughly 11 tonnes broke off during the fire of 1737 while the bell sat in its casting pit, leaving it permanently mute. It has stood on a pedestal in the Kremlin since 1836, never having been suspended or struck.
Liberia's connection to Russian cultural artifacts is purely commercial — the country has issued hundreds of novelty collector pieces under foreign licensing arrangements since the 1990s.