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  • 100 Pounds 1992, KM# 720, Egypt, Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics, Wrestling Ox
  • 100 Pounds 1992, KM# 720, Egypt, Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics, Wrestling Ox
Description

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event played in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992. Beginning in 1994, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the games in alternating even-numbered years; as a result, the 1992 Summer Olympics were the last competition to be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics. The games were the first to be unaffected by boycotts since 1972.

Obverse

Depicts four ancient Egyptian wrestling an ox and fifth jump over it, to commemorate wrestling at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and the Olympic emblem (torch) over them dividing the inscription "The 25th Olympic Games Barcelona 1992".

Athletics and the spirit of competition in contests sprang in the Mediterranean long before the Olympic games became an institution in Greece of the 8th century BC. A number of literary and iconographic sources from Egypt and Mesopotamia, starting approximately about 3000 BC and on, indicate the existence of athletic activities. The oldest reliefs with wrestling scenes, dated from 2400 BC, decorated the tombs of Ptahotep and Akhethotep. There, the wrestlers are depicted naked.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, 20 wrestling events were contested, for men only. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines.

الالعاب الأوليمبية
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برشلونة
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Reverse

Denomination in Arabic and English divides the date in Arabic (Hijri) and Western (Georgian) above mirrored wings around the country name (Arab Republic of Egypt) and inscription in English below. The abbreviation of the state name (ARE) above wings.

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100 LE
ARE
جمهورية مصر العربية
THE 25th OLYMPIC GAMES 1992

Edge
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Gold
Fineness 0.900
Weight 17 g
Diameter 31 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Mexican Mint (Mo)

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