Coins of Yugoslavia 250 Dinara Silver Coin 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games - Josip Broz Tito
At the time, Sarajevo was the second largest city to host the Olympic Winter Games. These were the first Winter Olympic Games that featured gold coins. Marja-Liisa Haemaelaeinen of Finland was the first woman to win three gold medals in cross country skiing. Katarina Witt won her first Olympic gold medal in Figure Skating, and figure skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Gold Medal, and performed to the music of Ravel’s Bolero.
Obverse Design: The Olympic emblem of Sarajevo (The emblem symbolizes a stylized snowflake, as well as the embroidery produced in the Sarajevo region with the Olympic rings above.), the emblem of Yugoslavia, and a Cyrillic legend, meaning: “The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia”
Reverse Design: The effigy of Josip Broz Tito, and the legend, “XIV Zimske Olimpijske Igre Sarajevo ‘84”, meaning: “XIV Olympic Winter Games Sarajevo ‘84”.
The artists for all Reverse Designs were Nebojsa Mitric, Dragisa Andric, Dragomir Mileusnic, Djordje Jovanovic, and Ljubisa Mancic. The artist for all Obverse Designs was Nebojsa Mitric.
Diameter: 34 mm
Weight: 17 grams
Thickness: 1.85 mm
Composition: .925 silver and .075 copper
Edge: Milled
Struck by Zlatara Majdanpek (ZM) and Zavod za izradu novcanica (ZIN)
Mintage (ZM): 31,011
Mintage (ZIN): 5,743
Issue Price: 4,125 Dinar ($36 US)
1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Coins
Ice Sports
Snow Sports
Culture and History
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito, original name Josip Broz (born May 7, 1892, Kumrovec, near Zagreb, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now in Croatia] — died May 4, 1980, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now in Slovenia]), Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. He was secretary-general (later president) of the Communist Party (League of Communists) of Yugoslavia (1939–1980), supreme commander of the Yugoslav Partisans (1941–1945) and the Yugoslav People’s Army (1945–1980), and marshal (1943–1980), premier (1945–53), and president (1953–1980) of Yugoslavia. Tito was the chief architect of the “second Yugoslavia,” a socialist federation that lasted from World War II until 1991. He was the first Communist leader in power to defy Soviet hegemony, a backer of independent roads to socialism (sometimes referred to as “national communism”), and a promoter of the policy of nonalignment between the two hostile blocs in the Cold War.