Issued to mark Russia's hosting of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, this piece belongs to a broader gold and silver program the Bank of Russia ran across several years preceding the Games. Judo holds particular political weight in Russian Olympic programming — Vladimir Putin is a black belt and former competitive judoka, and the sport received outsized promotional emphasis throughout the Sochi cycle.
At just over a kilogram of .999 gold, production numbers were minimal, as they are for all coins in this kilogram format.
Issued to mark Russia's hosting of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, this piece belongs to a broader gold and silver program the Bank of Russia ran across several years preceding the Games. Judo holds particular political weight in Russian Olympic programming — Vladimir Putin is a black belt and former competitive judoka, and the sport received outsized promotional emphasis throughout the Sochi cycle.
At just over a kilogram of .999 gold, production numbers were minimal, as they are for all coins in this kilogram format.