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Uncommon set of commemorative and participation medals from four Olympic Games held in Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968, Seoul 1988, and Los Angeles/Sarajevo 1984, which includes:
Handsome 18 KGP gold-plated commemorative medal for the cauldron lighting ceremony of the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics, 57 mm in diameter, 95 gm, with the front featuring an athlete’s head in profile with raised text, “1964 Tokyo, VIII Olympiad,” and the reverse featuring an embossed dragon encricling a central design of the Olympics rings, a flaming torch, and Japanese text. Includes its original presentation case.
Set of two silver-tone and bronze-tone commemorative medals from the Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics, both 64 mm in diameter and approximately 113 gm, featuring identical deigns to the front (central Aztec warrior surrounded by a pair of entangled dragons) and the reverse (the Olympics rings with text, “Mexico, Olympics 1968,” encircled by a pointed necklace or sun). Includes their original presentation case.
Commemorative medal issued for the 1984 Summer and Winter Olympic Games held in Los Angeles and Sarajevo, 63 mm in diamater, 99 gm, with the front featuring a dove flying over the Olympic rings, a lit relay torch, and raised text, and the reverse showing the respective emblems of both Olympic Games encircled by English and Croatian text. Includes its original presentation case.
Press participation medal issued for the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics. Bronze, 66 mm x 66 mm, 155 gm, with the front featuring a Korean archer on horseback, with the Olympic rings below, inscribed, "XXIVth Olympiad, Seoul 1988,” and the reverse depicting the Seoul Olympic Stadium with raised facsimile signatures of Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the IOC, and Park Seh-jik, president of the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee, with the dates of the Games below, "1988.9.17–10.2." Includes its original navy blue velvet case.
