Jamaica's 1980 Summer Olympics coinage was struck in anticipation of the Moscow Games, which Jamaica ultimately boycotted alongside roughly 65 other nations in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The coins were produced regardless — the commercial arrangement with the mint was already in place — leaving an issue commemorating an event its own issuing nation refused to attend.
Jamaica's 1980 Summer Olympics coinage was struck in anticipation of the Moscow Games, which Jamaica ultimately boycotted alongside roughly 65 other nations in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The coins were produced regardless — the commercial arrangement with the mint was already in place — leaving an issue commemorating an event its own issuing nation refused to attend.