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100 Dollars Summer Olympics
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Two relay runners are depicted in high relief at the centre of the field, shown in mid-stride as one athlete passes the baton to the other; an Olympic torch with flame appears between them in the upper field. Three parallel horizontal lines representing a running track occupy the lower portion of the design. The curved legend SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES arcs along the upper rim, and the denomination 100 DOLLARS is inscribed across the lower field above the track lines. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Jamaica's 1988 Seoul Olympics issue is one of the heaviest silver commemoratives produced by any Caribbean nation — a deliberate bid for collector attention in a saturated Olympic coin market. The Bank of Jamaica contracted several overseas mints during this period to produce large-format issues that domestic facilities could not handle at scale.
KM#135 is notably large even by the standards of the oversized commemoratives that flooded the market through the 1980s, when national mints worldwide discovered that Olympic licensing offered reliable hard currency revenue regardless of athletic results.