- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | MC04-0201 |
| Description: | 500 Lire |
| Country or State: | Italy |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Currency: | Lira (1861-2001) |
| Commemorative Issue: | 1992 XXV Summer Olympics, Barcelona |
| Obverse: | Female head facing with a laurel wreath and a band around her neck, as that of an Olympic Medal. At left of the neck the rings of a stadium with the name of the author below. |
| Obverse Legend: | REPUBBLICA ITALIANA, U. PERNAZZA |
| Reverse: | Elements of the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona: the great Portal and part of the Stadium with below the rings of the athletics field. At left, inside the composition, the five Olympic Rings with value and a star above. The mintmark is in the lower position. |
| Reverse Legend: | XXV OLIMPIADE, L. 500, 1992, BARCELLONA, R |
| Edge: | R. I. between stars and wreath (3 times) |
| Designer: | Uliana Pernazza |
| Mint Mark: | R (Rome) |
| Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Composition: | Silver (Ag) 0.835 |
| Diameter: | 32.00 mm |
| Weight: | 15.0000 Grams (0.4027 oz.) |
| Mintage: | 48,040 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 153, Gigante: 1012 |
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The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994. The 1992 Summer Games were the last to be staged in the same year as the Winter Games. Due to the end of the Cold War, these games were the first without boycotts since 1972. |
