Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
500 Lire 1984 Summer Olympics
| Issuer | Azienda Autonoma di Stato Filatelica e Numismatica |
|---|---|
| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | KM#168 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a dynamic high-relief composition by engraver Laura Cretara depicting two athletes in motion — a torch-bearer striding forward in the foreground while a second figure leaps athletically behind, evoking the Olympic relay and spirit of athletic competition. In the right field, the five interlocked Olympic rings appear beneath a radiating star motif and the date 1984. The denomination L. 500 is inscribed below the rings in the center-right field. The circular legend XXIII OLIMPIADE LOS ANGELES 1984 is distributed around the periphery, with the engraver's signature L. CRETARA visible in the lower left field. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | XXIII OLIMPIADE LOS ANGELES 1984 L. 500 |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
San Marino issued this piece for the Los Angeles Games despite a decades-long American diplomatic freeze with the republic being essentially a non-issue — the tiny enclave had no Olympic team controversies and no boycott complications in 1984, unlike the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc nations that sat out those Games. The AAFN, San Marino's combined philatelic and numismatic state authority, produced commemoratives with enough regularity by the 1980s that the series had become a reliable revenue stream rather than a singular occasion.