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5 Dollars Year of the Pig
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Thickness | 1.97 mm |
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| Reverse description | A detailed depiction of a pig standing in profile to the right occupies the central field, rendered in a naturalistic style with fine engraving detail. Encircling the pig along the upper and lateral fields, a series of Chinese zodiac Year of the Pig cycle dates — ·1947·1959·1971·1983·1995·2007· — are inscribed in a curved legend. A square seal-style cartouche bearing the Chinese character 豬 (pig) appears below the animal in the lower central field. The denomination $5 is inscribed at the bottom of the reverse. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Liberia's late-1990s and early-2000s commemorative program was, bluntly, a revenue operation — the country was deep in civil war fallout and generated hard currency by licensing its issuing authority to foreign distributors, primarily based in the United States and Germany, who designed and marketed these pieces with little connection to Liberia itself. Most never circulated there.