500 Dinara Winter Olympics 1984 - Downhill Skiing

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.