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Message:: [QUOTE="Skyman, post: 3558531, member: 28299"]As I'm sure you're aware of, countries around the world are producing coins of assorted metals that celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. Here's something else that just came out. Three of the Apollo Moon landing missions, 11, 14, 15, left laser reflectors on the Moon's surface. These reflectors have various scientific applications, such as measuring the distance from the Earth to the Moon, and the rate of tectonic plate drift. While not planned as such, they are also one of the most basic shut downs to the "Moon Hoaxers" conspiracy theorists. Heraeus manufactured the quartz glass that was used in the lunar reflectors. They have decided to sell two sets of gold bars to celebrate the 50th anniversary; a 2 gram bar, and a 1 ounce bar. Both are .999 gold. Here is a link to an article about the bars. At the bottom of the article are several links to purchase the bars if you so wish. Be aware that Heraeus is a German company, so these secondary links will open German language webpages (although the ordering section is easy enough to parse out). <a href="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000394.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000394.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000394.html</a> [ATTACH=full]946004[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]