Athens 2004 Olympic Games
Wrestling has been popular throughout recorded history. Early Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestlers using most of the holds known to the modern sport. In ancient Greece, wrestling occupied a prominent place in legend and literature; wrestling competition, brutal in many aspects, was the supreme contest of the Olympian Games.
On the coin, a modern athlete applies a waist-hold on his opponent and prepares to twist him round and throw him down to the ground, while in the background two ancient athletes are pictured in the stance known as akrocheirismos (finger-hold) and are pushing their heads against each other. This representation has been taken from a black-figure vase
Issue date: April 1, 2004 |
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Diameter - 40mm
Thickness - N/A
Weight - 34gr
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