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2000 $10 Republic of Liberia Colorized Timber Wolf Coin - Pure Silver Plate Over Pure Copper (LISTING ORIGINATION: ONLINE*COLLECTABLE*TREASURES)
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Price:
$45.00
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If so, does anyone else find it odd that there's a picture of our president on an African country's coins?
Don't know, but I am not surprised since he was born in Kenya like his mother said.
My foreign coin collection. This includes coins from all over the world including the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Bahama, Belize, Italy ...
This was shown during a MadTV "best parody commercials" episode. I didn't realize until the end that it wasn't part of the show ...
Brief clip about unique Spanish colonial "pieces of eight" now available for sale recovered from beneath the sea - just south of Jupiter ...
How is it that an African country 'authorizes' these American commemorative proofs? What exactly does it mean that they are 'authorized'? Why is this done?
They are not American commemorative coins, but Liberian coins. They have American themes to try to get Americans to buy them. Many countries cheaply let promoters say they are "legal tender", since the country knows nobody will spend them there, and it is free money
Price:
$40.00
$4.95
Silver plated
Legal Tender Ten Dollar coin issued by authority of the government of Liberia
Painted by renown wildlife artist Al Agnew.
Republic of Liberia Year 2000 Colored Timber Wolf $10.00 coin
From Freud to Mugabe Zimbabwe's Filthy Lucre
I had another visceral experience with American money a few weeks ago when I was in Zimbabwe, which in January of 2009 implemented the U.S. dollar as the currency of the land. The South African Rand and the Botswana Pula are also used, but mostly for small change. In Zimbabwe, the American dollars are so filthy, so darkened by use, that the bills can hardly be identified—especially dollar bills and, intriguingly, a plethora of two-dollar bills. The money is so disgusting that you don't want to put it in your pocket or your billfold. You just want to get rid of it as soon as possible. Even carrying around a bottle of Purell doesn't alleviate the feelings of contamination.
The Zimbabwean government's decision to use American dollars—and officially, the South African Rand and the Botswana Pula—was made to stabilize the country's hyper-inflation. Unfortunately, the major result was propping up the Mugabe government, prolonging its life. I didn't see any Pula or Rand bills in circulation but occasionally a coin in one of those two currencies was used for change, since there are no American coins in use. (Couldn't we get rid of all the Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollar coins that Americans hate and send them to Zimbabwe, possibly even selling them at a profit? They would certainly hold up better than paper currency.
Why are American commemorative coins "authorized by the Republic ...
They are not American commemorative coins, but Liberian coins. They have American themes to try to get Americans to buy them. Many countries cheaply let promoters say they are "legal tender", since the country knows nobody will spend them there, and it is free money to them. The promoters like it since a coin is not a coin unless it is legal tender somewhere, otherwise it is a medal, and there are a lot more coin collectors than medal collectors.
Republic of Liberia coins
So I came across some Republic of Liberia coins while going though some stuff. One is a $5 coin dated 2000 and on the front is an attack of pearl harbor commemorative image. The other is a $10 2001 coin that has, no kidding, a 3d hologram sticker of the statue of liberty on the front. It's a little cheesy looking actually. I've seen these Republic of Liberia coins advertised on TV (not the specific ones I have in my possession, but in general I've seen them sold on TV before) Are they actually worth anything or are they just gimmick? Would they even be worth the $5 and $10 face values? this has got to be one of the worst coins ever issued by a country, liberia decided to issue a coin to celebrate the octopus that was supposed to have picked out the winners in each game in the 2010 world cup, it also celebrates spain winning the competition even though there is not even a remote link between liberia and spain let alone an octopus in a german...
