5 Dollars Warren G. Harding

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.