Evidence coverage: 1839–1935. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Earlier revision wording is superseded: the 1935 law redefined an existing Liberian dollar. See the revision 24 statutory correction.
Sources and qualifications →The Commonwealth adopted US monetary standards in 1839 and used local dollar obligations, taxes and bill redemption by the 1843 compilation. Association with the continuing Liberian dollar is qualified; the compilation date is not the enactment date of its undated currency act.
Sources and qualifications →The 1933 official survey identifies the Liberian dollar as the monetary unit while reporting British West African coins as the principal circulating money.
Sources and qualifications →The Commonwealth constitution adopted United States monetary standards on 5 January 1839, while reserving local currency-valuation authority.
Sources and qualifications →By the 1843 official compilation, Commonwealth law reckoned debts, judicial thresholds, taxes, currency redemption and militia pay in dollars and cents. The Uniform Currency Act recognized earlier Commonwealth bills issued after 21 January 1840.
Sources and qualifications →The 1847 constitution continued compatible Commonwealth laws into the Republic until repeal.
Sources and qualifications →The Commonwealth dollar reckoning and the Republic’s continuing dollar account unit can be represented as an earlier qualified phase of FTM000114, rather than separate nodes for independence, notes or coins. This is an adjudicated continuity inference, not a proved uninterrupted chain of every intervening enactment.
Sources and qualifications →The 1917 BBWA agreement maintained government debit and repayment obligations in dollars despite British banking and currency circulation; the agreement alone does not identify the dollar denomination more narrowly.
Sources and qualifications →The Liberian dollar was identified as the country’s monetary unit in 1933, before the 1935 gold-content act.
Sources and qualifications →The 1935 gold-content act amended an existing Revised Statutes provision and should be treated as a standard reform of an existing dollar unit.
Sources and qualifications →Kemmerer’s 1939 report explicitly distinguishes Liberian-dollar government accounts from sterling wages and prices and US-dollar debt.
Sources and qualifications →Sterling and West African pound circulation did not extinguish the official Liberian-dollar account unit; the 1942–43 circulating-medium replacement is therefore insufficient to make the West African pound the predecessor of LRD.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
The Commonwealth adopted US monetary standards in 1839 and used local dollar obligations, taxes and bill redemption by the 1843 compilation. Association with the continuing Liberian dollar is qualified; the compilation date is not the enactment date of its undated currency act.
C1224The 1933 official survey identifies the Liberian dollar as the monetary unit while reporting British West African coins as the principal circulating money.
C1225Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Liberia’s 1935 dollar definition matched the US dollar gold content; later law provided parity and interchangeability. This is an optional founding-standard reference, not demonstrated account-unit succession.
Domestic Currency Not Main Circulating Medium, paragraphs1–6 and quotation of1956Code sec.1171
Statute summaries and regional 14 September 1967 withdrawal date are not substituted for the original territorial acts/notices.
Conflicts with the indexed Bank of Uganda timeline remain open.
Indexed printed pp.115–116 on national East African currencies and former-board exchange inspected; full chapter retrieval returned 403
Liberia’s 7 June 1935 statute established a national dollar account unit, reenacted in the 1956 Code. This is an earlier observation, not evidence that coin issuance in 1962 created the unit.
Corrected interpretation: The inspected 1935 act amends an existing dollar provision. Its wording does not establish the account unit in 1935. Replacement evidence: C1242.
Domestic Currency Not Main Circulating Medium, paragraphs1–6 and quotation of1956Code sec.1171
Statute summaries and regional 14 September 1967 withdrawal date are not substituted for the original territorial acts/notices.
Conflicts with the indexed Bank of Uganda timeline remain open.
Indexed printed pp.115–116 on national East African currencies and former-board exchange inspected; full chapter retrieval returned 403
The Commonwealth adopted US monetary standards in 1839 and used local dollar obligations, taxes and bill redemption by the 1843 compilation. Association with the continuing Liberian dollar is qualified; the compilation date is not the enactment date of its undated currency act.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full HTML transcription inspected; constitutional certification and named statutory sections read.
OCR has evident errors, so section locators take precedence over transcription pagination.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The 1933 official survey identifies the Liberian dollar as the monetary unit while reporting British West African coins as the principal circulating money.
Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The Commonwealth constitution adopted United States monetary standards on 5 January 1839, while reserving local currency-valuation authority.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full HTML transcription inspected; constitutional certification and named statutory sections read.
OCR has evident errors, so section locators take precedence over transcription pagination.
By the 1843 official compilation, Commonwealth law reckoned debts, judicial thresholds, taxes, currency redemption and militia pay in dollars and cents. The Uniform Currency Act recognized earlier Commonwealth bills issued after 21 January 1840.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full HTML transcription inspected; constitutional certification and named statutory sections read.
OCR has evident errors, so section locators take precedence over transcription pagination.
The 1847 constitution continued compatible Commonwealth laws into the Republic until repeal.
Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The Commonwealth dollar reckoning and the Republic’s continuing dollar account unit can be represented as an earlier qualified phase of FTM000114, rather than separate nodes for independence, notes or coins. This is an adjudicated continuity inference, not a proved uninterrupted chain of every intervening enactment.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728); p.9 and notes 41–42; p.29 and notes 138–139
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full HTML transcription inspected; constitutional certification and named statutory sections read.
OCR has evident errors, so section locators take precedence over transcription pagination.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728); p.9 and notes 41–42; p.29 and notes 138–139
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728); p.9 and notes 41–42; p.29 and notes 138–139
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728); p.9 and notes 41–42; p.29 and notes 138–139
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111; Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728); p.9 and notes 41–42; p.29 and notes 138–139
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full author-paper transcription inspected at listed mirror.
The 1917 BBWA agreement maintained government debit and repayment obligations in dollars despite British banking and currency circulation; the agreement alone does not identify the dollar denomination more narrowly.
FRUS 1917, document 1081, pp.889–890, clauses 1, 2(a), 3, 7, 9–10
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The Liberian dollar was identified as the country’s monetary unit in 1933, before the 1935 gold-content act.
Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The 1935 gold-content act amended an existing Revised Statutes provision and should be treated as a standard reform of an existing dollar unit.
Chapter V, Extraordinary Session 1935, printed page 6 / PDF page 55, sections 1–3
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Kemmerer’s 1939 report explicitly distinguishes Liberian-dollar government accounts from sterling wages and prices and US-dollar debt.
Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Sterling and West African pound circulation did not extinguish the official Liberian-dollar account unit; the 1942–43 circulating-medium replacement is therefore insufficient to make the West African pound the predecessor of LRD.
Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728); p.9 and notes 41–42; p.29 and notes 138–139
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728); p.9 and notes 41–42; p.29 and notes 138–139
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Liberia section, printed p.77 / PDF p.82; Morgenthau Diaries volume 506 part 2, diary p.326 covering letter (HTML lines 7484–7519); Diary p.330 / report Part I p.1 (lines 7630–7669); Diary p.331 / report p.2 (lines 7712–7728); p.9 and notes 41–42; p.29 and notes 138–139
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full author-paper transcription inspected at listed mirror.
The 1839 Commonwealth constitution adopted United States monetary standards; local dollar obligations and currency redemption are documented by 1843. This supports an earlier optional founding-unit reference, while a distinct USD-to-Liberian account transition remains unestablished.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full HTML transcription inspected; constitutional certification and named statutory sections read.
OCR has evident errors, so section locators take precedence over transcription pagination.
Constitution article 28 and certification dated 14 January 1839 (HTML lines 229–234); An Act for the establishment of Courts, sections 2–4 (lines 267–279); Militia act section 11 (lines 615–617); An Act establishing an Uniform Currency, sections 1–4, printed pp.34–35 (lines 620–626); Article V, section 1; HTML lines 108–111
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The1839adoption of US monetary standards, together with local dollar-denominated public obligations and redemption recorded by1843, supports a qualified regional USD-to-Liberian-dollar branch. Neither exclusive parentage nor universal redemption is asserted.
1839constitution art28;1843Uniform Currency Act and local payment clauses
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full HTML transcription inspected; constitutional certification and named statutory sections read.
OCR has evident errors, so section locators take precedence over transcription pagination.
1839constitution art28;1843Uniform Currency Act and local payment clauses
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.