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Topic: American Innovation coin: Alabama (Saturn V)
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52198 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-07-2022 06:00 PM
collectSPACE NASA's innovative Saturn V rocket to launch onto 2024 US dollar coinThe historic rocket that launched the first astronauts to the moon will blast off from the back of a new dollar coin in 2024. NASA's Saturn V booster will be featured on the U.S. Mint's American Innovation $1 Coin representing the state of Alabama. The Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) and the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) separately reviewed the candidate designs and made differing recommendations to the director of the mint. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52198 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-13-2023 06:36 PM
collectSPACE Saturn V rocket art revealed for 2024 American Innovation $1 coinThe United States Mint is getting ready to put a rocket in your pocket. As first announced in 2022, the state of Alabama chose NASA's historic Saturn V to appear on a $1 coin as its example of American Innovation. With the dollar piece now nearing its Spring 2024 release, the mint has revealed the final design for the moon rocket-adorned coin. |
Axman Member Posts: 436 From: Derbyshire UK Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 12-14-2023 05:32 AM
An exceptionally well designed coin.Although I must admit when first looking at it I thought the land masses were poorly demarcated. And then it dawned! That's the moon, not the Earth. ☺️ |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52198 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-05-2024 05:36 PM
The U.S. Mint will begin sales of rolls and bags of Alabama's American Innovation $1 coin on April 8, 2024.Proof and reverse proof sets of the 2024 American Innovation coins will be issued later in the year. The Mint seems to have stopped offering individual reverse proof sets for each coin as it did earlier in the American Innovation series. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52198 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-08-2024 07:00 AM
collectSPACE Moon rocket money: US Mint releases $1 coin celebrating Saturn VAt the same time that millions of Americans will be looking up to see the moon eclipse the Sun, the United States Mint will be releasing for sale a golden dollar coin celebrating the innovative rocket that launched the first people to cast shadows on the lunar surface. The new Alabama American Innovation $1 coin honors NASA's Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the state where it was designed and built. Rolls and bags of the non-circulating legal tender coins go on sale on Monday (April 8) at noon EDT (1600 GMT), just as the path of totality for the solar eclipse begins to cross over the west coast of Mexico, beginning its span over North America. (The timing of the coin's release coinciding with the solar eclipse was coincidental.) |
Axman Member Posts: 436 From: Derbyshire UK Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 04-08-2024 08:32 AM
Do we know its metallic composition? I'm presuming the gold colour isn't due to a gold content. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52198 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-08-2024 10:04 AM
Each 8.1 gram coin is 6% zinc, 3.5% manganese, 2% nickel, and the balance copper. |
Axman Member Posts: 436 From: Derbyshire UK Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 04-08-2024 10:11 AM
Thanks Robert |