Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 Đồng Winter Olympics Calgary 1988
| Issuer | Vietnam |
|---|---|
| Year | 1986 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | 29.5 mm |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central field bears the state emblem of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, comprising a red-enamelled star surmounting a cog wheel and rice sheaves bound with a ribbon inscribed VIỆT NAM, all in high relief. The circular legend CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM runs along the upper periphery. The denomination 100 ĐỒNG and the date 1986 are inscribed in two lines below the emblem. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central field depicts a dynamic figure of a downhill skier in full racing posture, leaning forward with ski poles extended and snow spray at the tips of the skis, rendered in detailed relief. The circular legend THẾ VẠN HỘI Ô·LIM·PIC MÙA ĐÔNG XV is inscribed along the upper periphery. In the lower portion of the field, the phonetic Vietnamese rendering of the host city and the year GAN·GA·RY 1986 appear in two lines, commemorating the XVth Winter Olympic Games to be held in Calgary in 1988. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Vietnam issued a small run of commemorative silver pieces in the mid-1980s explicitly for the hard-currency export market — the domestic economy was under the doi moi reform period and Vietnamese citizens had neither the means nor the legal framework to hold such coins. The Calgary series was one of several Olympic-themed issues produced through foreign minting arrangements, targeting European collector markets rather than any domestic circulation.
The two-year gap between issue date and the Calgary Games themselves was not unusual for this program.