A special series of collectible gold and silver coins dedicated to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are ready for release.
The series will present a range of coins featuring Olympic Sports, Mass Sports, Olympic Venues, Cultural Heritage, the uniqueness of the Sochi Region, and others.
Twenty-one types of commemorative coins made of silver, 13 gold coins and three coins of non-ferrous metal are to be issued for mass circulation.
There will also be one issue of savings coins made of silver, and two types of gold.
The coins will be issued in the Russian Federation starting in 2011.
Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee President Dmitry Chernyshenko said, “the launch of the coin program always has special significance in the preparation for the Olympic Games. Coins depicting various winter sports and the Sochi Olympic venues will become collectors’ items for countless fans of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement.
“These coins are particularly special as their manufacture will use innovative technologies to create them, which once again underlines our commitment to creating the most innovative Games in history”.
