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500 Dinara Winter Olympics 1984 - Downhill Skiing
| Issuer | National Bank of Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Value | 500 Dinars (500 динарa) (500 YUD) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | XIV ZIMSKE OLIMPIJSKE IGRE SARAJEVO '84 (Translation: XIV Winter Olympic Games Sarajevo '84) |
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Yugoslavia secured the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1977, beating out Sapporo and Gothenburg in a vote that surprised many IOC members. It was the first Winter Games held in a socialist country, and the Yugoslav government treated the event as a major prestige project — the commemorative coin program, issued two years before the Games, was part of a coordinated campaign to generate hard currency from foreign collectors at a time when Yugoslavia's external debt was becoming a serious structural problem.