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2 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis XVIII Winter Olympic Games
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Diameter | 33 mm |
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| Obverse description | The crowned coat of arms of Andorra is displayed to the left of the field, featuring the quartered shield with the traditional heraldic motifs including the mitre and crook, and cattle. To the right, a five-line legend in the field reads the title and name of the co-prince. The denomination '2 D.' appears in large characters in the lower centre of the coin, with the date '1997' inscribed directly below. |
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| Reverse lettering | XVIII JOCS OLIMPICS D'HIVERN 1998 (Translation: XVIII Winter Olympic Games) |
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Andorra's coinage authority used the 1998 Nagano Winter Games as one of several Olympic licensing opportunities during the 1990s, a decade when the principality leaned heavily on commemorative silver issues to generate revenue — actual circulation coinage being largely unnecessary in a territory that relied on French francs and Spanish pesetas for everyday trade. The 2 Diners denomination existed almost exclusively in this commemorative capacity.
Bishop Joan Martí i Alanis, who co-governed Andorra as one of its two co-princes from 1971 until 2003, appears as issuing authority here rather than the French Republic — a detail that reflects Andorra's unusual feudal diarchy, still operative under its 1993 constitution.