101943 | UNITED STATES & GERMANY. Apollo 11 silver Medal.

101943  |  UNITED STATES & GERMANY. Apollo 11 silver Medal. Issued 1969. Commemorating the first men on the moon (30mm, 12.95 g).

 

MOON 1969 / COLLINS ARMSTRONG ALDRIN, facing busts of Collins, Armstrong, and Aldrin in spacesuits / View of the moon's surface, with numerous craters and taking up the entire field. Edge: 1000.

 

Hans Kaiser 2024. Choice Mint State. Highly brilliant and prooflike, with some alluring frosting to the devices.

 

Captivating the entire world, the Apollo 11 spaceflight achieved the monumental and historic event of landing man on the surface of the Moon for the first time. Armstrong and Aldrin spent a little over two hours on the Moon, conducting experiments and gathering environmental samples, before returning to the Eagle Lunar Module which ultimately rejoined the Columbia Command Module, the latter having been piloted solely by Collins during the Eagle's landing and subsequent events. This achievement closed out the decade of the '60's which began with a challenge by President Kennedy in 1961, namely that "...before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

 

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