Yugoslavia hosted the Mediterranean Games in Split in 1979, and this commemorative was struck a year ahead of the event — standard practice for the Yugoslav mint, which routinely issued Games-related silver ahead of the opening ceremony to maximize collector sales through Jugometal, the state export agency handling numismatic distribution abroad.
Yugoslavia hosted the Mediterranean Games in Split in 1979, and this commemorative was struck a year ahead of the event — standard practice for the Yugoslav mint, which routinely issued Games-related silver ahead of the opening ceremony to maximize collector sales through Jugometal, the state export agency handling numismatic distribution abroad.