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5 Dollars Zachary Taylor
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A full-color portrait of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, is depicted in the central field, rendered in a colorized photographic style against a landscape background with mountains and a river. The portrait is bust-length, facing slightly to the left, set within a beaded inner border. The legend ZACHARY TAYLOR arcs along the upper rim, with flanking five-pointed stars at either side. The inscription 12th U.S. PRESIDENT (1849-1850) appears in the lower portion of the coin, partially curved along the lower rim. |
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Liberia has issued commemorative 5-dollar pieces bearing American presidential portraits since the 1990s, contracting with private minting houses — primarily the Pobjoy Mint and the BH Mayer Mint — to produce collector-market issues with no meaningful domestic circulation. Taylor himself died in office in July 1850, just 16 months into his presidency, likely from acute gastroenteritis contracted after consuming raw fruit and iced milk at a Fourth of July ceremony. A 1991 exhumation found no evidence of arsenic poisoning, despite persistent theories.