Scarce winner's medal issued for the Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics. Gilt silver, 70 mm, 234 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 features the Games logo of a stylized man leaping over the Olympic rings. Unlike winner's medals from other Olympic Games, examples from Barcelona do not indicate the sport or event. The medal bears a couple of dings to edges and instances of pitting and wear to the gilt. Includes its original striped ribbon with Olympic colors.
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. An attractive first-place prize, and the first such awarded example that we have offered from the historic XXV Olympiad.
