Maryland/Liberian Colonial Currency

Fifty-cent, five-cent and ten-cent paper currency issued by the Board of Managers beginning in October 1837. For use by the Maryland emigrants to Liberia at the “Government Store”. The equivalent of eight hundred dollars was printed during the first run. (John H.B. Latrobe, “Maryland in Liberia”: a history of the colony planted by the Maryland State Colonization Society under the auspices of the State of Maryland, U.S., at Cape Palmas on the south-west coast of Africa, 1833-1853 (John Murphy & Co.: Baltimore, 1885), p. 57-59, between 134-135). Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries).