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100 Đồng Summer Olympics Sydney 2000
| Issuer | State Bank of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | Ô-LIM-PIC XXVII 1998 XIT-NI 2000 (Translation: 27th Olympics Sydney) |
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Vietnam issued this piece two years before the Sydney Games as part of a broader wave of Olympic commemorative programs that flooded collector markets throughout the late 1990s. The State Bank participated in these licensing arrangements largely as a hard-currency revenue exercise — the coins were never intended for domestic circulation and were sold almost exclusively through international numismatic distributors.
KM#77 is one of several Vietnamese Olympic issues from this period, all sharing the same .999 silver specification and produced in limited quantities by contract mints outside Vietnam.