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300 Ngultrums Soccer
| Issuer | Royal Government of Bhutan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Tibetan |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bhutan's 1993 football issue was part of a broader wave of commemorative coinage produced for the 1994 FIFA World Cup held in the United States — a tournament notable for being the highest-attended World Cup in history despite the host nation's peripheral relationship with the sport. Bhutan, landlocked in the eastern Himalayas, had no World Cup qualification history at the time and issued this coin purely as a numismatic export product, a common revenue strategy for small nations throughout the 1990s.