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500 Francs Winter Olympics, Skiing
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Diameter | 31 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | XVIES JEUX OLYMPIQUES D'HIVER 1989 500 FRANCS ALBERTVILLE 92 |
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France's 1992 Albertville Winter Games generated an extended commemorative program launched years before the event, with this 1989 issue among the earliest in that series. Monnaie de Paris spread the program across multiple years precisely to sustain collector revenue without flooding the market in a single release window.
The .920 fineness is a deliberate throwback to pre-metric French gold standards rather than the modern .999 norm — a choice that differentiates these pieces from contemporary bullion issues and anchors them to an older Parisian minting tradition.