Almost everyone in this world knew football or soccer but most of us never heard about handball. French Mint or Monnaie de Paris is issuing a coin featuring Handball in their €50 Gold Proof 1/4 oz coin. This coins minted to show support for French handball team that had been excelled in that sports for several years. Only 1000 pieces of this collection will be minted for world circulation. Coins is in .920 gold proof quality. The item price at € 370.00.
The obverse shows an attacker pivoting against a goalkeeper at full stretch. To the left, Big Ben, the London landmark, reminds us of the location of the next Olympic Games of 2012. The reverse shows an image of Earth focusing on the European continent. London is marked on the map with a dot and in the middle of the globe is a player shooting at full stretch.
Description:
Artist: Atelier de Gravure
Weight: 8,45 g
Diameter: 22 mm
Mintage: 1,000
Metal: Gold .920 fine
Quality: Proof
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team. The team with the most goals after two periods of 30 minutes wins. Modern handball is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the form of field handball (which was more common in the past) and beach handball. The International Amateur Handball Federation was formed in 1928, and the International Handball Federation was formed in 1946.
Holger Nielsen, a Danish gym teacher, drew up the rules for modern handball (håndbold) in 1898 and published them in 1906, and Rasmus Nicolai Ernst, another Danish teacher, did something similar in 1897. Another set of team handball rules was published on 29 October 1917 by Max Heiser, Karl Schelenz, and Erich Konigh from Germany. After 1919 these rules were improved by Karl Schelenz. The first international games were played under these rules, between Germany and Belgium for men in 1925 and between Germany and Austria for women in 1930.
Source: French Mint, Wikipedia.
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