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Lot #3098
Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics Silver Winner's Medal

Sought-after silver winner's medal from the memorable Barcelona Summer Games

Estimate: $6000+

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Description

Sought-after silver winner's medal from the memorable Barcelona Summer Games

Winner's medal issued for the Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics. Silver, 75 mm, 269 gm, by Xavier Corbero; manufactured by Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre. The front depicts a seated Victory in Modernist style holding a winner’s crown and palm branch with Olympic rings and raised text: “XXV, Olimpiada Barcelona, 1992”; and the reverse featuring the Games logo of a stylized man leaping over the Olympic rings. Includes a cut segment original ribbon with Olympic colors, still attached to the medal. The medal exhibits overall tarnishing.

The 1992 Summer Olympics were the last competition to be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics, and the first summer games since the end of the Cold War. In the wake of the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991, the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania sent their own teams for the first time since 1936, with the twelve other former Soviet republics competing as the Unified Team, a collective that led the Olympiad with a total of 112 medals.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Olympics
  • Dates: December 12, 2024 - January 16, 2025