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1500 Dinara Mediterranean Games
| Issuer | Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Currency | Hard dinar (1966-1989) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the state emblem of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia — a torch encircled by six stylised wheat stalks bound with a ribbon bearing the date — above three interlocked rings representing the Mediterranean Games. The denomination 1500 appears prominently in the lower field, flanked by the currency inscriptions DINARA, DINARJEV, ДИНАРИ, and ДИНАРА in multiple languages. A circular legend surrounding the design reads SFR JUGOSLAVIJA in Latin script and СФР ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА in Cyrillic, separated by ornamental stops. The year 1978 and mint marks appear to the left of the emblem. The overall composition is rendered in high relief with a deeply mirrored proof-quality finish. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Yugoslavia hosted the Mediterranean Games in Split in 1979, making this one of the few instances where the country issued a gold commemorative tied directly to an event on its own soil. Tito was still alive — he died in May 1980 — and the Split games carried considerable political weight as a showcase of Yugoslav nonalignment and modernization. The .900 gold standard used here follows the older continental fineness rather than the .999 issues that would come to dominate commemorative coinage in the following decade.