post your Apollo/ outer space coins

A friend of mine gave me these cool tokens a few days ago.
I love everything to do with rockets/ outer space, so if you have a coin with something to do with the subject, then post it!

 

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My Fav Apollo coin.

 

One of the members of another forum, aka Skyman, has a fantastic collection of Mecury, Gemini and Apollo memorabilia. There is a lot of paper money autographed by the mission members, and most of it has gone into space with them.

Chris

 

I love ike dollars for the very reason you stated above and will also be on the look out for such tokens in the future as i did not know of there existence.

Neil Armstrong and fellow astronauts had a hard time obtaining life insurance because of the hazards of there jobs, so before the mission they signed a ton of letters and memorabilia and horded it. The plan was in the event of them dying on the mission to the moon there wives would sell it off and thus taking place of a life insurance Policy.

 

My only coin with "Apollo". After all, it is what they named the ships after.



Caracalla (198 - 217 A.D.)
AR Denarius
O: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, Laureate head right.
R: P M TR P XVII COS IIII P P, Apollo seated left, branch in right and resting left elbow on lyre set on tripod.
Rome
3.31g
19.6mm
RIC IV 238A, RSC 242

 

I was fortunate enough to have photographed a few of SkyMan's space memorabilia, but just a small portion of his growing collection.

Gus Grissom carried a roll of Roosevelt dimes with him when he became our second man in space. This occurred when he flew Mercury-Redstone 4 or Liberty Bell 7 into space for his 15 minute flight July 21, 1961.





Gus Grissom became the first man to US Astronaut to fly into space twice when he commanded Gemini 3 into space on March 23, 1965. He made three revolutions around the earth. This time instead of a roll of dimes, he carried just this one.

In front of Roosevelt's chin you will see where Grissom carved GT3. SkyMan told me what the T stood for, but I can't remember.




Finally, a $2.5 Gold Liberty was taken into space by James McDivitt aboard Gemini IV. This was the flight where the first Space walk by an American (Edward White) took place. McDivitt and White circled the earth 66 times in 4 days.

 

One of my Morgan dollars has an interesting die gouge or dent right in the middle of Liberty's cheek, and I'll be darned if it doesn't look like one of the early space capsules.

Chris

 

Here's my verdigris....Er Medal I have had for a while.

 

My kids gave me this token set which they purchased during their Florida trip a few years ago:

 

Really liking that one!

 

Your little Giant medal is much nicer than mine! Love the design on it too!

 

I have a couple sets of the young astronaut series. Nice gold and silver coins that can still be found occasionally.

Lack

 

Here are a couple more pieces from SkyMan's space collection.

Both have been flown into space.

The first is a Flightline pin or medal from Gemini 10 flown by Michael Collins and John Young.





The second is from Apollo 7, the first manned flight from the Apollo series. The flight lasted 11 days. The astronauts were Walter M. Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and Walter Cunningham. I'm sure it was also the first time two Wally's were in space at the same time.

 

You did say coins dealing with space. Here is a Polish 20 zlotych commemorating a Polish cosmonaut. The other is a Soviet Union 1 rouble commemorating their space program.

 

Well on the Apollo 11 theme i have this, regret i couldn't afford the silver one (this is pewter) I was 12 or 13 at the time

however on the space theme i also have this (1.4oz sterling)

 

very nice coins and tokens everyone! I especially think that counterstamped Lincoln is cool.