50th Anniversary 1st Landing On The Moon (2019)On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon for the first time. Their historic journey was supervised and controlled by NASA's three space tracking facilities located on Spanish soil: Fresnedillas (Madrid), Robledo de Chavela (Madrid) and Maspalomas (Gran Canaria). Second by second, North American and Spanish technicians protected and controlled the status of the astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, as well as that of their spacecrafts Columbia and Eagle.
To commemorate the man's arrival to the moon and the contribution of the Spanish facilities to this event The Royal Spanish Mint has reached an agreement with the U.S. Mint to develop a joint product of two coins (€90.91) in the same package. One coin will be the 8 reales coin from Royal Spanish Mint and the other one will be the U.S. Mint curved half-dollar coin. The maximum mintage of the set of two coins will be 5,000 units.
Characteristics of the Spanish coin:
The reverse depicts one monitoring antenna based in Spain, the lunar module and, as a background, the moon.
The obverse side depicts a portrait of His Majesty King Felipe VI.
An additional 5,000 of the 8 reales coin is available (€55.00) separately.
posted 07-04-2019 05:37 PM
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