Originally posted under World Coins forum. I received some replies, but still do not know whether this is a legitiment coin or not. I purchased a 2006 Proof Torino Olympic silver coin from Italy, but since than I have never been able to see the identical coin for current evaluation. Has anyone seen this coin? Do you know where I can find a listing? This Coin came from Torino, Italy at the beginning of the Olympic games. The person who bought it for me was at the olympic games where he purchased it. I still have the mail postage package it came in from Italy. I can assure you that the coin is not a medal. It is a .925 pure silver coin. The coin is 38.61 mm in diameter, 925/1000 silver, 20 grams. It's cost was 51 Euro ($60). Replies; The logo is that of the Torino 2006 Olympics, but what you have is either a coin from some other country or a medal. Italy issued a €2 commemorative coin on that occasion, and a series of collector coins. The commem is bimetallic and does not have the logo. The 11 silver and gold collector coins do have it, but the inscription is always in Italian, not in English, and the coins are not colorized. Then it will be a medal. The coins all have the inscription "Repubblica Italiana" above the logo (which by the way is a stylized representation of the tower of the Mole Antonelliana, a famous building in Torino), and the text "torino 2006" is between that logo and the Olympic Rings. On the other side, the coins say "XX Giochi Olimpici Invernali" (XX Olympic Winter Games) and have the face value - €5 and €10 for the silver pieces. And, no colors ... Nothing wrong with buying medals of course - in fact quite a few are more nicely designed than coins. The only problem is that it is difficult to find them listed in catalogs or to determine a "market" value. Don't know what the other side looks like, but if it has a little three-digit figure somewhere (e.g. "925"), that would be the silver content Christian It might have been purchased in Italy, but that is no guarantee that it was made there. I don't live in China, but it seems that nearly everything sold in the stores here is. Do you see any denomination on it? If there is no denomination, then it is almost certainly a medal and not a coin. * grivna
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I'm looking at the set I got in Torino and your medal looks the same as mine. It's an official medal put out by the XX Olympic Winter Games Committee. The reverse should have a flame in the foreground over a pictogram of the alps. Written within the mountains is "XX Giochi Olimpici Invernali" and "10 - 26 Febbraio 2006" There should also be a serial number incuse in the bottom of the flame's urn. a star with three numbers and two letters. Don't feel bad if you don't have an Italian Commem. I looked very hard and was unable to find them during the games. HTH
