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5 Dollars Zachary Taylor
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Modified arms of the President of the United States adapted for Liberian coinage, with LIBERTY substituted for E PLURIBUS UNUM on the shield and a single star outlined at the top of the shield. The heraldic device is centrally positioned in the field, encircled by the legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA arching above and the denomination FIVE DOLLARS below. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA LIBERTY · FIVE DOLLARS · |
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Liberia's late-1990s and early-2000s commemorative program was essentially a licensing operation — designs were contracted to foreign minting firms and sold primarily to collector markets in Europe and North America, with little meaningful circulation in Liberia itself. Taylor, the twelfth U.S. president, died in office in July 1850 after just sixteen months, most likely from acute gastroenteritis contracted at a Fourth of July ceremony, though arsenic poisoning theories persisted long enough that his remains were exhumed in 1991. The KM and X dual-reference reflects the contested status of this issue between mainstream catalog and exonumia classifications.