Carlos Lopes won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic marathon at age 37, becoming the oldest Olympic marathon champion in history at the time — a record that still stands. Portugal issued this piece under its unconventional 7½ euro denomination, a face value series INCM introduced partly as a collector vehicle and partly to sidestep the design constraints applied to standard euro coinage under EU agreements.
Carlos Lopes won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic marathon at age 37, becoming the oldest Olympic marathon champion in history at the time — a record that still stands. Portugal issued this piece under its unconventional 7½ euro denomination, a face value series INCM introduced partly as a collector vehicle and partly to sidestep the design constraints applied to standard euro coinage under EU agreements.