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5 Dollars Warren G. Harding
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Liberia is depicted centrally, featuring a shield bearing a sailing ship, a dove in flight, a palm tree, and a rising sun, surmounted by a five-pointed star. A ribbon scroll inscribed with the national motto encircles the shield, flanked by decorative supporters below. The date 2010 is divided across the lower field on either side of the arms. The legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA arcs along the upper rim, while the denomination FIVE DOLLARS appears in the lower field within a beaded border. The design is executed in a polished, proof-like finish with crisp relief against a mirror field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Liberia has issued commemorative five-dollar pieces under its own authority since the 1970s, but the program expanded aggressively in the 2000s into a sprawling series targeting the collector novelty market rather than domestic circulation. This Harding piece is part of that wave — a silver-plated base-metal issue produced almost certainly by a European contract mint, with Liberia lending its name and legal tender status to a coin its own population would never have seen or spent.
Harding died in office in August 1923, and the cause remained disputed for decades — contemporary suspicion of poisoning was never proven, and modern assessments favor heart failure complicated by pneumonia.