Andorra's Olympic commemorative program in the late 1990s produced a series of bimetallic issues that were technically ambitious for a microstate with no domestic mint — all were struck under contract at foreign facilities. The gold inlay on this piece is a genuine 18-karat insert, not plating, which made the production runs expensive relative to the tiny principality's commemorative budget and kept mintages correspondingly low.
Andorra's Olympic commemorative program in the late 1990s produced a series of bimetallic issues that were technically ambitious for a microstate with no domestic mint — all were struck under contract at foreign facilities. The gold inlay on this piece is a genuine 18-karat insert, not plating, which made the production runs expensive relative to the tiny principality's commemorative budget and kept mintages correspondingly low.