2016-03-04 Fri

The Olympic Games has been celebrated on commemorative coins issued worldwide.

Albert M. Beck is a coin enthusiast who specially loves collecting Olympic coins. He extended his hobby by creating a catalogue of all official modern Olympic coins issued for games from 1952 to the Rio Games in 2016. German publisher Battenberg published the book, Olympic Coins Helsinki 1952 – Rio 2016.

According to Beck, 992 official issues are featured in the catalog and around 2,000 related issues are not included in the catalog. Out of these, many were issued to raise funds to conduct the Olympics.