Artefacts

Beijing 2008, Commemorative medals set of Sports and Mascots.

Physical description

White cardboard with the mascots and chinese caption on one side and the Games' emblem and the caption: "Beijing 2008 Official Licensed Product" on the other side. The 38 medals are encased in a two-sided 2007 desk calendar. The first side contains the first sixth months and the other side the other sixth months. The obverse and reverse of the medals can be seen. On the calendar the months are depicted and the year 2007 is also depicted by a pig (chinese zodiacal sign for the year). There are the Games' emblem, the mascots practising the olympic sports and a child in traditional clothes holding peach? branches. The obverse of the medals depicts a mascot practising an olympic sport and a caption in english and chinese. The reverse of the medal depicts the Games' emblem and a chinese caption: "Mascot of the 29th Olympic Games".

Materials

cardboard, metal, plastic

Colors

white, silver, red, gold

Dimension

21.2 x 19.3 x 2.1 cm, 51.4 x 20.7 x 0.4 cm, 775 g