Liberia 1977 cent
This specimen was lot 70195 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, June 2022), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "LIBERIA. Cent, 1977. Kings Norton Mint. PCGS SPECIMEN-64 Red. This lovely Specimen from the King's Norton Mint offers exacting strike and rich mint red that shimmers and glints with a beauty surpassing a ruby. Ex: Kings Norton Mint Collection." Liberia was founded in the 1840's by freed slaves from America who promptly set up a caste society in Africa with the local natives as lesser citizens. This two tier society has broken down somewhat but outbursts of political violence continue. Much of the Liberian circulation coinage was produced by the Franklin Mint but this issue was made in Denver and San Francisco 1960-61, 1968-78, 1983-84. In the last twenty years, Liberia has fallen into the clutches of the private minters, who have issued such Liberian themed commemoratives as Star Trek (KM 128), Babe Ruth (KM 131) and Princess Diana (KM 464).
Recorded mintage: 2,500,000 plus 920 proofs.
Specification: 2.6 g, bronze, 18 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-13.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The June 2022 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring Selections from the Kings Norton Mint Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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