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500 Dinara Olympics - Sprinter
| Issuer | National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Diameter | 38.8 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic figure of a sprinter in full athletic attire is depicted in the central field, leaning forward in a powerful starting stride with arms and legs in vigorous motion, rendered in high relief against a darkened background. The denomination D500 is inscribed in the lower central field beneath the athlete. The circular legend XXVI ZIMSKE OLIMPIJSKE runs along the upper periphery, with ATLANTA 1996 inscribed along the lower arc, flanked by small star ornaments. |
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Bosnia struck this piece in 1996 while the country was barely a year out of the Dayton Agreement, which had ended nearly four years of siege and ethnic conflict. Issuing commemorative coinage at that moment was a deliberate act of institutional normalization — the National Bank asserting peacetime function. The Atlanta Games that year were the first Bosnia and Herzegovina attended as an independent nation.