50 Vatu Summer Olympics - Sprinter

Vanuatu's Olympic coinage program in the late 1990s was a revenue exercise familiar across Pacific island nations — small states with minimal Olympic participation history licensing their minting authority to produce collector pieces for the international market. The .585 fineness is notably below the standard .999 or .9167 gold used in most sovereign bullion issues, a deliberate cost-reduction measure that kept production economics viable for low-mintage commemoratives with limited secondary market depth.