| Description : The purpose of the International Olympic Committee, with its
headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, is to organise and supervise the Summer and Winter Games. It holds the patronage of
the Olympic Movement and claims all rights to the Olympic symbols and the Games themselves. Currently, the IOC has 99
voting regular members. Grand Duke Henri was appointed to the body in 1998. The coin, designed by Italian medallist
Chiara Principe, is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Grand Duke Henri's admission as a member of the IOC.
To the right of and above his portrait in three‐quarter profile, she has draped pictograms of four athletes from
various Olympic disciplines and a stylised figure bearing the Olympic flame as part of the anniversary number "25". Above
it is the year "1998" and below it the year of issue "2023". On the left, in vertical lines, the words "LËTZEBUERG"
(Luxembourg) and "GROUSSHERZOG HENRI" (Grand Duke Henri) are written in two lines in Luxembourgish, and on the lower right,
in three lines, "MEMBER VUM INTERNATIONALEN OLYMPESCHE KOMMITEE" (Member of the International Olympic Committee). Three
overlapping circle segments suggesting the Olympic rings are visible below, with the ligature "CP" of the designer's
initials in the middle segment. The mint mark visible in the right segment indicates involed mint: For circulation coins,
a cornucopia indicates the mint mark of the French mint Monnaie de Paris in Plessac and the square logo indicates
the French chief engraver Joaquin Jimenez; for coins in Coincards, which ‐ minted in normal
relief ‐ show the minting grade mint gloss, the staff of Hermes the mint mark of the Royal Dutch mint
Koninklijke Nederlandske Munt in Houten and a raven as the logo of the Dutch mintmaster Bert van Ravenswaaij.
Coins offered in coin sets also bear the Dutch mint marks, but they were produced using the MPI (Minted Photo Image)
minting technique. Coins produced in the proof production process show the "MK" between two embossing stamps, the
mint mark of the Slovak mint Mincovňa Kremnica š.p. in Kremnica. |
