| Winner medals 1964
Medals were designed by. Mr. Toshitaka Koshiba,
Art Officer of the Japanese Mint, after the models of medals of Amsterdam
IX Olympiad (1928). On the reverse side of the medals are the letters of
"XVIII OLYMPIAD TOKYO 1964" with the game designation in English of each
of the 20 sports (e.g. ATHLETICS).
Medals were of 60 mm in diameter and 3 mm
thick. The gold medal is a pure silver mould strongly gilded with 6 grams
of fine gold, the silver medal is made of pure silver, and the bronze medal
is of bronze. The medals were provided with a ring plated with gold, silver
or copper respectively, and a coloured box coated with Japanese black lacquer.
The medals were cast at the Japanese Mint.
Some of the surplus medals were presented to public museums and for exhibition
purposes, while the remainder were melted down.
(Source document: Official
Report 1964, Vol. 1, page 229)
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