Product Description
SCWPM.#26a - TBB.#B306aDate: 2003
Grade: Unc.
CBL.signature: 3
Description:
Colour: Red.
Front: Coat of arms with bird, ship, palm tree, sun, and plow; fifth president, Edward James Roye.
Back: Bank seal with crossed kissi money and front and back of 50-cent coin dated 1969; woman harvesting rice.
Solid security thread.
Watermark: None.
Printer: Unknown.
Size: 157 x 67 mm.
Material: Paper.
General information: 2003-2011 Issues
President Taylor resigned on 11 August 2003, and was replaced by Vice President Moses Blah, who handed over power to the National Transitional Government of Liberia on 14 October, symbolically ending the Second Liberian Civil War.
These notes are identical to the preceding issues of the same denominations, except for new dates, signatures, and the CENTRAL BANK OF LIBERIA banner on the back.
At the end of 2006, the Central Bank of Liberia released $1.5 billion in 20- and 100-dollar banknotes without obtaining a permit from the National Legislature.
The CBL maintains the permit was'nt necessary in this case because the notes in question differ from the previous issue only in that the signatures changed. Governor J. Mills Jones defended the action by stating, “In 2005, with the knowledge of the Board of Governors of the bank, the then Executive Governor, Charles A. Green, placed an order for banknotes with the François Charles Oberthur Fiduciare, a French company.” The new signatures were sent to the printer on 29 March 2006, and the new notes began arriving in August 2006.
(Source: The Banknotebook)
