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SportsNumis New Member United States 11 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 10:03 am I collect Olympic Commemorative Coins. I'd be interested to know of other collectors out there that are into the same thing. If you are...post some photos of some of your favorite olympic coins and let's see what we get in this thread. I'll do the same. Thanks...looking forward to seeing what you all come up with. Report this Post to the Staff

Apollo Pillar of the Community Canada 1610 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 10:07 am My complete 1976 Montreal Olympics set: https://goccf.com/t/106265 Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 10:41 am to CCF. Here is one I have, what do you think? https://goccf.com/t/44261 John1 Report this Post to the Staff
muddler Pillar of the Community United States 7189 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 11:05 am This is one of my favorites. 1988 Seoul $5 Report this Post to the Staff
svslav Pillar of the Community United States 2605 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 4:50 pm Welcome, SportsNumis! I'll share mine. Here're Soviet rubles commemorating 1980 Moscow Olympics. They all share the same obverse so I'm posting only one Before this series there was only a handful of commemorative rubles and all of them circulated. With these coins many people started collecting, although many still entered circulation. From then on most Russians called (any) commemoratives "olympic rubles". Report this Post to the Staff
svslav Pillar of the Community United States 2605 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 5:00 pm More (still Soviet) rubles, now the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. I'm missing one in this series, the javelin thrower. The common obverse: Report this Post to the Staff
VictoryBullion Valued Member United States 187 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 6:55 pm I like the 1980 China pcs! :) Report this Post to the Staff
muddler Pillar of the Community United States 7189 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 7:21 pm A few more US dollars. Report this Post to the Staff
Apollo Pillar of the Community Canada 1610 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 7:51 pm Wow, the proof Russian ones are nice. I like how they compare it to the ancient sport in the background. Report this Post to the Staff
specksynder Pillar of the Community United States 1080 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 9:46 pm the 1968 Mexico Olympics had some coins with high silver content. I know I've got some around here... let me try to get a photo later. Report this Post to the Staff
Libertad Pillar of the Community Canada 3692 Posts	Posted 01/22/2012 10:23 pm You mean .720 fine? That's...pretty high, I guess... High for me would be .925, .900 at the least. Report this Post to the Staff
SportsNumis New Member United States 11 Posts	Posted 01/23/2012 06:32 am 1964 Austria - pretty cool coin for being such an early example of an Olympic commemorative Report this Post to the Staff
SportsNumis New Member United States 11 Posts	Posted 01/23/2012 06:36 am 1995 - a couple of commemoratives for the Atlanta games that I really like. Report this Post to the Staff
svslav Pillar of the Community United States 2605 Posts	Posted 01/24/2012 03:33 am Polish 2 zlote commemorates the Beijing Olympics Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 01/24/2012 06:45 am You asked for it - be prepared for lots of photos: Japan Nagano olympics - 1998 Japan 1964 Olympics And I have the Moscow 1980 Olympic coin set in nickel cupro set, silver coin set and one platinum coin... to be posted in another time... My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
SportsNumis New Member United States 11 Posts	Posted 01/24/2012 09:24 am Thanks for the great coins everyone...keep it up! Report this Post to the Staff
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