5 Dollars Year of the Pig

Liberia's mid-1990s commemorative program was essentially a revenue operation — the coins were struck for the international collector market, not Liberian circulation, at a time when the country was still fractured by the First Liberian Civil War. KM#362 is one of dozens of themed issues produced under licensing arrangements with foreign minting interests during this period, with the Chinese lunar calendar providing a reliable annual subject for export sales.