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1000 Dobras Olympics 1992
| Issuer | São Tomé and Príncipe |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a stylised cauldron of Olympic flames rising before a backdrop of snow-capped mountain peaks, referencing the XVI Winter Olympic Games held in Albertville, France in 1992. The year 1992 appears within the cauldron design at centre. The denomination 1000 DOBRAS is inscribed in the lower field in two lines. The circular legend XVI JOGOS OLÍMPICOS DE INVERNO arcs across the upper periphery in bold relief lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | XVI JOGOS OLÍMPICOS DE INVERNO 1992 1000 DOBRAS |
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São Tomé and Príncipe began issuing commemorative silver in the late 1980s almost entirely for the international collector market — the domestic economy had little use for a coin worth multiples of the average daily wage. This Olympics issue, struck two years before the Barcelona Games, was part of a broader wave of advance commemoratives produced by small nations licensing their minting programs to European manufacturers, typically Valcambi or the Kremnica mint, with the issuing government receiving a flat royalty per piece.