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25 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis XVII Winter Olympic Games
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse description | The crowned coat of arms of Andorra is depicted to the left of the field, featuring the quartered shield with the mitre and crozier of the Bishop of Urgell and the four pallets of Aragon among other heraldic charges, surmounted by a royal crown. To the right, a five-line legend in the field identifies the co-prince issuer. The denomination '25 D.' and the date '1993' are inscribed prominently in the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | XVII JOCS OLIMPICS 1994 (Translation: XVII Olympic Games 1994) |
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Andorra's coinage authority in the early 1990s aggressively targeted the commemorative collector market, issuing a succession of Olympic-themed gold pieces tied to events in which Andorra had no competitive presence worth noting. The 1994 Lillehammer Games, commemorated here a year ahead of schedule, were the first Winter Olympics held under the post-1992 decision to stagger Summer and Winter cycles — a scheduling change by the IOC that inadvertently doubled the frequency of commemorative coin programs for small issuing states.
Joan Martí i Alanis served as Bishop of Urgell and therefore co-Prince of Andorra from 1971 until his death in 2009.