Do you need another Susan B. Anthony dollar? If so Neil Armstrong has one for sale.

Neil Armstrong's 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar for sale at Heritage Auctions:

https://historical.ha.com/itm/explo...6205-52868.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

And he's selling his 1964 Red Book (A Guide Book of United States Coins by R. S. Yeoman):

https://historical.ha.com/itm/explo...6205-52894.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

And more of Neil's coin collection including a 1904 $20 gold piece:

https://historical.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?No=840&N=49+793+794+792+2088+4294946297

Here's a Heritage Auctions press release for the sales:

https://www.ha.com/heritage-auction...be-sold-at-heritage-auctions.s?releaseId=3474

 

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Interesting! I had no idea Neil Armstrong was also a coin collector!

 

Wasn't it still illegal to own gold in the 1960s (by gold confiscation order of 1933), by the way?

 

Oh man... You should have never shown me this. I am such a total push over for this. I was so enthralled with Apollo and the astronauts as a kid. And to compound the deal, my wife is distant kin to Neil Armstrong.... Here I am placing bids and have no idea how to even maneuver around their website.

 

They are auctioning one coin dated 1969 (year he landed on the moon) from his collection. I will be winning that coin.

 

Gold up to a certain dollar amount was always legal to own. So I am pretty sure if he had one $20 gold piece it was legal. Many dealers misinterpreted the law to believe ALL gold ownership was illegal.

I still cannot believe Americans allowed the US Government to ban private gold ownership above a certain level.

 

As I mentioned in the other thread this is the Neil Armstrong FAMILY collection. Some of the stuff may have belonged to Neil, but some belonged to other family members as well. haven't looked at everything but I saw some stuff that belonged to an S. K. Armstrong.

Under the original order you could keep up to $100 worth of gold (at the time that would be about five oz) And you could keep gold coins as part of collection of coins. Later it was decided that any gold coins struck before I believe April 5th 1933 would be considered "rare and unusual" and could be held and imported without a license (still had to have a license to export). the only reason we got that exemption in the original order was because Roosevelt's Sec of the Treasury was a coin collector, and he collected gold coins.

It was a different time, most people thought the government could do no wrong so if they said you have to turn in your gold , the people thought it was their patriotic duty to do so. "After all they must know what they are doing."

 

The Susan B. Anthony dollar sold for $600.
The 1904 $20 sold for $3,500.
The 1964 Red Book sold for $450.

 

That would have been William Woodin, FDR's first Sec of the Treasury. Fun fact-He also composed children's music and an accomplished violinist. Abolishing the gold standard was supposedto help boost the economy during the depression. I wonder how many people actually heeded FDR's executive order.

 

I bid on four of the lots. Got a bit caught up in it. When I realized my max 300 dollar bid for two average 64 Kennedy halves wasn’t in the field of play... I gave up.

 

It wasn't illegal to own collectible U.S. coins, of which all U.S. gold coins were considered.

 

It would be interesting to see the quantified data for this (if there is any) but I've heard on more than one occasion that most U.S. gold coins that survive are from contemporary European hoards and stockpiles, which were beyond the reach of that horrible order.

 

So that's where all that UK ebay US gold coinage came from.

 

Randy, You may have some interest in a small memorial park honoring Armstrong located in my hometown of Warren, Ohio. Neil's family lived in Warren for a time, and his father, Stephen, took Neil for his first airplane ride at Warren Airways when he was six years old, in a Ford Tri-Motor. The park has a half scale model of the Lunar Module along with a couple of rocket models. I am not sure when the airport closed, I only remember from my teenage years (late 60s) that one of the hangers had been converted to a bar called the Aerodrome and it had a lot of model airplanes hanging from the ceiling. That structure is also long gone now, and the majority of the airport property is now occupied by an old K-Mart plaza, a McDonald's and an new apartment complex called The Landing. The memorial was built in 2001 as an educational resource and inspiration to children. There is additional info on line if you are interested.

 

Absolutely I am! Thanks for this. I am going to share this with my wife who has always told me she was a distant cousin and she did carry the name. I grew up in that era where all us kids were consumed by the NASA astronaut/heroes. In the late 1970’s the US Army gave me three months duty at the cape launching Army missiles in the ocean. Toughest three months of my life... LOL.... Just being there at the cape was overwhelming to me back then. Thanks!

 

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