*#* 1992 SA Silver R2 Proof Barcelona Olympics - Mintage 14 853 *#*

The city of Barcelona hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics. Visitors to Barcelona love to check out the former Olympic grounds. The 1992 Olympics were the first post-soviet games. Consequently, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and a unified Germany were able to compete as independent states. A record 10,563 athletes from 172 nations gathered without a single country boycotting the Games. Both Cuba and North Korea returned after 12 years and South Africa was welcomed back after 32 years of isolation, following the national government''''s denunciation of apartheid racial policies.