*#* 2019 SA Mint - R2 Silver - SA Mint Pratley Putty inventions series 456 Mintage Only *#*

 2019

50 YEAR COMMEMORATIVE
INVENTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA SERIES
"PRATLEY PUTTY MOON LANDING"
1oz  R2 SILVER PROOF COIN 

PRATLEY PUTTY 

WAS USED AS A MATERIAL IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NASA SPACECRAFT USED IN THE EXPEDITION TO THE MOON 

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The R2 crown depicts the earth as seen from a vantage point above the moon. The earth is shown from an angle that clearly displays the continent of Africa, with South Africa prominently in the foreground. The Apollo 11 module, as well as lunar lander, also appears with the dates 1964 and 1965 (the years of the Ranger missions), 1969 (the year of the first moon landing) and 2019 (the year in which the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing will be commemorated) on the reverse.

The Apollo Lunar Module, or simply lunar module (LM, pronounced "Lem"), originally designated the lunar excursion module (LEM), was the spacecraft which was flown to and landed on the Moon in 1969. The lander spacecraft were built for the US Apollo program by Grumman Aircraft. The lunar module, consisting of a descent stage and an ascent stage, was ferried from the Earth to the Moon attached to the Apollo spacecraft command and service module

The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon.

Details:
R2 CROWN Mass: 33.629 grams    Diameter: 38.725 mm    Metal Content: AG 925  CU 75
MMINTAGE: 456 only worldwide