2019 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing $1 PNC

2019 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing $1 PNCThe successful landing of American spacecraft Apollo 11s Lunar Module Eagle on the Moon in 1969 was a tremendous achievement for mankind. Broadcast thanks in part to Australias CSIRO Parkes radio telescope and NASAs Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were watched by more than half a billion people as they took their first steps on the Moons surface. Portraying iconic images of NASAs Saturn V

on 6 February 1952

the colonies had produced their own stamps for some 60 years

Lion Dance Design

These tokens are quite scarce and known by only between 50-100 examples

000 metres

being deemed culturally

to honour household and heavenly deities

'K' for Kangaroo PNC issued as part of the Aussie Alphabet series produced by the Perth Mint

and appeared again the following year at the beginnings of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra

Fixed to the envelope is an official Australia Post $3

bust of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

This is the first coin of a four coin series