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50 Cents
| Issuer | Central Bank of Liberia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Liberty, depicted as a young woman with flowing hair adorned with a decorative headband and wearing a necklace, occupying the central field. A single five-pointed star appears below the bust in the lower field. The circular legend REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA runs along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA |
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KM#17b represents a composition change driven by economics, not policy. The earlier 50-cent pieces were struck in copper-nickel; the switch to nickel-clad steel around 2000 reflected Liberia's prolonged fiscal collapse, itself a consequence of the civil wars that devastated the country through the 1990s. The Central Bank had minimal hard currency reserves with which to procure coinage blanks, and cheaper steel-core planchets were the practical solution.