15 Olympic Games was held in Helsinki, Finland from July 65438 to August 3, 952. 195 1 year, Finland issued 1 commemorative silver coins specially for this Olympic Games, which was the first time to issue Olympic commemorative coins. Since then, supporting the Olympic Games by issuing commemorative coins has become an important part of the organization of each Olympic Games. The commemorative coin is silver, weighing 12g, with a color of 50%, a face value of 500 marks and a diameter of 32mm. Front pattern: country name, face value surrounding Guizhi. Pattern on the back: 15 Helsinki Olympic Games, Olympic rings and year number. Commemorative coins are divided into two versions: 195 1, 1952. 195 1 edition issued10.9 million pieces, and 1952 edition issued 586,000 pieces.
It was not until 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games that the Finnish government issued the modern Olympic commemorative coins for the first time.
More than ten years later, the Austrian government issued commemorative coins in 1964 to commemorate the Winter Olympics held in that country.
In the same year, the Japanese government issued two commemorative coins for the Tokyo Olympic Games. At the subsequent Olympic Games, all the host countries issued commemorative coins with the theme of the Olympic Games during the Olympic Games.
The Olympic flame torch was first cast on commemorative coins.
18 Olympic Games was held in Tokyo, Japan from 10 to 10/0 on October 24th. It was the first time that the Olympic Games were held in Asia. Japanese youth Yoshiki Sakai lit the Olympic flame, which showed the Japanese people's strong desire for peace. The host country issued a set of two commemorative silver coins for this Olympic Games, and cast the Olympic flame torch on commemorative coins for the first time.
The commemorative coin is silver, weighing 4.8 grams, with a color of 60%, a face value of 100 yen and a diameter of 22.6 mm, and the front pattern: the Olympic rings are superimposed on the torch. Pattern on the back: 1964 Tokyo, face value and year (Showa 39).
The other commemorative coin is silver, weighing 20g, with a color of 92.5%, a face value of 1000 yen and a diameter of 35.1mm. Front pattern: country name, face value, cherry blossoms around Mount Fuji. Back pattern: 1964 Tokyo, face value, Olympic rings, year, cherry blossoms on both sides.
The first wrong coin
The first Olympic commemorative coin reflecting traditional sports is also the first wrong edition Olympic commemorative coin.
19 Olympic Games was held in Mexico City from June 1 968 65438+1October 12 to 27, and Mexico issued1commemorative silver coins for this Olympic Games. The commemorative coins are made of silver, weighing 22.5 grams, with a purity of 72%, a diameter of 38 mm, a face value of 25 pesos and a circulation of about 27 million pieces.
Front pattern: eagle-bit snake emblem perched on cactus, face value, mint mark m, back pattern: traditional sports game of Mexican indigenous Maya, with I-shaped stadium as the background. The Mayans called this game "POK TA POK". Both players hit the ball into the stone circle hung by the other side with skinny elbows, knees and hips. This coin pioneered the combination of Olympic commemorative coins and traditional sports in China. Since then, it has been imitated by many countries.
Interestingly, although only 1 coin was issued in Mexico City Olympic Games, it was the 1 coin with the most mistakes and variations in the history of Olympic commemorative coins. First of all, there are mistakes in the design of the Olympic rings. According to the regulations of the International Olympic Committee, the upper, middle and third rings of the five rings should be on the same horizontal line, but the middle ring of the upper and third rings of some coins is low, so it is a wrong version of coins. Although it was corrected immediately, it has already lost a lot. Secondly, according to the data, there are different types of variants of this currency, and it is difficult to list them one by one.
The first Olympic commemorative coin reflecting the Olympic emblem
With the birth of the first Olympic Games, the Olympic emblem has gone through one hundred years since 1896. Although the Olympic emblem is different, it has become the symbol of different Olympic Games.
As a symbol of the Olympic Games, it has been cast on Olympic commemorative coins since the 20th Munich Olympic Games.
The 20th Olympic Games was held in Munich from August 26th to September 26th. 1972. The host country issued six commemorative coins for this purpose for four consecutive years. Six commemorative coins with a face value of 10 mark, a diameter of 32.5mm, a weight of15.5g and a silver color of 62.5%. There are different eagle emblems on the front and different designs on the back. Among them, two commemorative coins are cast with the emblem of this Olympic Games-the halo of spiral radiation, which means good luck.
5. The modern Olympic commemorative coins that reproduce the theme of the ancient Olympic Games for the first time. 2 1 The Olympic Games was held in Montreal, Canada from July 65438+7 to August 1 2007. The host country specially issued 28 commemorative silver coins and 2 gold coins, which pushed the issuance of Olympic commemorative coins to a climax.
Silver coins are divided into 7 groups, with 4 pieces in each group, totaling 28 pieces, with face values of 5, 5, 10 and 10 respectively, diameters of 38, 38, 45 and 45 mm respectively, weights of 24.3, 24.3, 48.6 and 48.6 g respectively, and fineness of 92.6. The second set of commemorative silver coins reflects the gods Zeus and temple of olympian zeus in Greek mythology, as well as the ancient Olympic athletes wearing laurels and holding torches.
Zeus, the god of the gods in ancient Greek mythology, was held to pay tribute to him. The Montreal Olympic Games cast the themes of the ancient Olympic Games and Zeus on the commemorative coins of the modern Olympic Games for the first time, showing the origin of the ancient Olympic Games.
The first set of commemorative gold coins for the modern Olympic Games
2 1 The Olympic Games was held in Montreal, Canada. The host country issued two Olympic gold coins for this Olympic Games, which is the first set of gold commemorative coins in the history of modern Olympic commemorative coins.
The two commemorative gold coins have the same pattern on the front and back, and the front is the country name, the head of Queen Elizabeth II, the maple leaf and the year. Athena, the goddess on the back, presented a wreath to the naked Olympic male athletes, with the words from 776 BC to 1976 on the left, the face value on the right and the Greek word 2 1 Olympic Games on the bottom. Among the two gold coins, the ordinary gold coin has a face value of 100 Canadian dollars, a diameter of 27 mm, a weight of 13.3 grams, a purity of 58.3%, pure gold14 ounces, an annual number of 1976, and a circulation of 650,000 pieces. The face value of refined gold coins is 100 Canadian dollars, the diameter is 25mm, the weight is 17g, the purity is 9 1.7%, the pure gold is 1/2oz, the annual quantity is 1976 pieces, and the circulation is 337,000 pieces.