500 Dinara Winter Olympics 1984 - Cross-country Skiing

Yugoslavia lobbied aggressively to host the 1984 Winter Games, and Sarajevo's selection in 1978 — beating out Sapporo and Gothenburg — was a significant political achievement for Tito's government, though Tito himself died in 1980 and never saw the games held. The commemorative coin program issued alongside the Sarajevo Olympics was extensive, running across multiple denominations and two metals, with the silver 500 Dinara series bearing the individual sport reverses.

By 1984, Yugoslav inflation was already accelerating toward the crisis that would effectively destroy the dinar by decade's end — making these coins worth more as silver than as currency almost immediately upon issue.