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50 Gourdes 1980 Moscow Olympics
| Issuer | Banque de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1977-1978 |
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| Thickness | 2.52 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI OLYMPIADE - MOSCOU 1980 (Translation: Republic of Haiti - Moscow Olympiad) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Haiti's Olympic commemorative program in the late 1970s was a nakedly commercial enterprise — the coins were never intended to circulate and were sold almost exclusively to foreign collectors through Franklin Mint distribution channels. The Moscow Games connection was largely incidental; dozens of nations with no meaningful Olympic presence issued similar pieces purely for the numismatic market.
KM#129 was struck in 1977–78, two years before the 1980 Games, and well before the U.S.-led boycott that would ultimately keep Haiti from competing in Moscow.