Neil Armstrong Commemorative Token Found, Swiss Cheese Nickel

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FireballXL5 Valued Member United States 148 Posts	Posted 05/27/2017 5:14 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Earle42 Bedrock of the Community United States 10034 Posts	Posted 09/09/2023 11:05 am What an unusual token! My interest is piqued as well. Online image search using your pictures brought the following: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...a112168.html ebay SOLD search shows 13.00 paid for the lowest priced one. But most are above the 20.00 sold price. Also found the following comment online: Quote: User avatar level 1 azzthom · 3 mo. ago This is a genuinely interesting item. It's part of a set of four tokens that were used in various promotions. They're made of copper, though silver versions do exist. Their origins are something of a mystery - nobody seems to be sure which company made them. We do know that they were sold for 50 cents and 75 cents, which was a big chunk of pocket money in the early seventies. Items from this set have achieved decent sums at auction, but that's because particular specimens were owned by... Neil Armstrong. They were sold by his family after his death. They can also be purchased via the usual sites for a few bucks. If anyone wants to look for themselves, they're known as 'Moon Money'. The rest of the set is the Moon Buggy penny: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...a246166.html The Gremlin dime: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...a114691.html The Green Cheese penny: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...ia96859.html How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 Edited by Earle42 09/09/2023 11:27 am Report this Post to the Staff
Toledano99 New Member United States 35 Posts	Posted 09/10/2023 11:01 am I've been trying to find the origins of these tokens for a while now and haven't made much progress. This article gives me some more background but still leaves me at a dead end as to where they were minted, what type of gumball promotional process it was, etc. http://www.spaceflownartifacts.com/..._tokens.html I'd love to know if anyone else has in their possession the books mentioned in the article by Howard Weinberger or know if these are mentioned there. He collected these tokens and NGC has graded and certified a few from his collection, so it seems he knew at least a little. Report this Post to the Staff
Toledano99 New Member United States 35 Posts	Posted 09/10/2023 11:04 am It was previously discussed here and found on a card, so that contradicts the gumball theory too! http://goccf.com/t/358886 Report this Post to the Staff
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