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400 Līrah / Livres XIII Winter Olympics
| Issuer | Lebanon |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 400 Livres |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the official emblem of the XIII Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games of 1980, consisting of the five interlocked Olympic rings above a stylized slalom gate or ski jump motif composed of bold geometric lines forming the letter 'L'. A bilingual circular legend surrounds the central device, with Arabic text reading along the upper and left portions and the French inscription 'XIII JEUX OLYMPIQUES D'HIVER LAKE PLACID 1980' occupying the right and lower portions of the coin. |
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Lebanon issued this coin during one of the most turbulent stretches of its civil war, which had already consumed five years of the country by 1980. The XIII Winter Olympics series was a prestige mintage aimed squarely at foreign collectors — domestic circulation was essentially irrelevant given the conditions on the ground in Beirut.
The Lake Placid games themselves were dominated off the ice by the U.S. boycott debate over Afghanistan, which had begun just weeks before the February opening ceremony.