week 6

the winners of the games show the ancient coliseum's and the goddess of victory holding the laurel crowns on the obverse side which is engraved 'XXIVTH Olympiad Seoul. the back side shows a pigeon(the symbol of peace) soaring up holding a laurel branch in its mouth and the Seoul Olympic composed to three Taeguk patterns from the Korean flag and five olympic rings. the medals were manufactured. the gold took up to 92.5% of the content of the gold medal which was gilded with 5 grams or more. it was 60mm in diameter and weighed around 145 grams. the silver took up to 92.5% of the silver medal and the other 7.5% is bronze. it was 60mm in diameter like the gold medal but weighs 5 grams less. the bronze medal contained 95% of bronze, 4% of copper and 1% of copper. it was also 60mm in diameter. info and pic from:http://olympic-museum.de/w_medals/wmed1988.htm