New Zealand's commemorative dollar program in the early 1990s leaned heavily on international sporting events, and this issue followed Lillehammer's 1994 Winter Olympics — the first Winter Games held on a two-year offset cycle after the IOC split the Summer and Winter schedules in 1992. The shift meant Lillehammer followed Albertville by just two years, an anomaly that won't recur.
New Zealand's commemorative dollar program in the early 1990s leaned heavily on international sporting events, and this issue followed Lillehammer's 1994 Winter Olympics — the first Winter Games held on a two-year offset cycle after the IOC split the Summer and Winter schedules in 1992. The shift meant Lillehammer followed Albertville by just two years, an anomaly that won't recur.