OLYMPIC MEDALS AND COINS. 510 B.C. - 1994 by Victor GADOURY & Romolo VESCOVI (Victor Gadoury Publications. Monaco. 1996)

Last week's article on "RARE OLYMPIC MEDALS AT AUCTION" encouraged me to send the present article about this important reference book on Olympic Medals and Coins. Howard DANIEL also did an article in The E-Sylum in 2009!!! I encourage you to read his article and homage to the author Victory GADOURY.

A year ago I was surprised to discover that an Oscar ROTY plaque medal dated 1900 was not struck for the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition as inscribed but for the Paris Olympic games! So I acquired this book about two months ago to identify Olympic medals.

A quick check in my copy confirms that the plaque Gold Medal format and designs mentioned in last week's article is identical to that givento winners of the 1900 games. The following metals: gilt silver, silver, silvered bronze and bronze were offered to the other participants. It alsostates that these second Modern Olympic Games were dedicated to Pierre DE COUBERTIN, the French Restorer of the Games and that the great star ofthese games was the American, Alvin KRAENZLEIN who won three gold medals. The books covers Olympic coins and medals known to the authors from theGreek coins minted in Olympia in 510 B.C to the 1996 Centenary of the first modern Olympics.

This reference book, OLYMPIC MEDALS AND COINS is available from the Editions V. Gadoury in Monaco for 29 Euros. It also exists in a French version.

To read the complete article, see:
Olympic Medals and Coins 1996 (www.gadoury.com/en/books/olympic-medals-and-coins-1996)

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
BOOK REVIEW: OLYMPIC MEDALS AND COINS BY VICTOR GADOURY (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v12n32a06.html)
RARE OLYMPIC MEDALS AT AUCTION (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n48a36.html)