5 Dollars XXVII Olympic Games - Javelin throw

Liberia's Olympic commemorative program of the late 1990s and early 2000s was essentially a revenue operation — the country had no athletes competitive at Sydney 2000 and no meaningful connection to the Games being commemorated. These issues were licensed through third-party marketing firms and struck at private mints for the collector novelty trade, never intended for domestic circulation in a country then mid-collapse under Charles Taylor's government.

KM# 710 is one of dozens of near-identical sports-themed pieces from this Liberian series. Copper-nickel issues like this one were the low-end tier of a product line that also included silver and gold variants sold at significant premiums.