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JBoe
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posted 02-13-2015 09:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for JBoe   Click Here to Email JBoe     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I saw these two Viking FDC and they have a medal seal on them. What are the chances that they are medal from the program?

tnperri
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posted 02-13-2015 09:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for tnperri   Click Here to Email tnperri     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I would say very unlikely. I am pretty sure they would of included something to say that they used metal in the making of type of message.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 02-13-2015 09:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
To add to that, the medallion and acrylic-embedded shavings presentations I have seen were issued by Martin Marietta, so I would expect the seals or covers to include the company's name, too.

One neat thing to notice about the Viking 1 cover: the touchdown date is wrong. Viking 1 was originally scheduled to land on July 4 but NASA took additional time to find a suitable place to set down, which delayed the descent to July 20.

yeknom-ecaps
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posted 02-13-2015 10:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for yeknom-ecaps   Click Here to Email yeknom-ecaps     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
These metalic cachets were made by Clyde Sarzin company - Sazin produced numerous metalic cahcets for events in the early 1970s. The metal has nothing to do with the program.

JBoe
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posted 02-13-2015 01:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for JBoe   Click Here to Email JBoe     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great, thanks! I thought I would ask in the off chance that there was something similar to the Statue of Liberty cover.

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