Post Your Space Themed Medals & Other Exonumia!

Here is 3 different examples. Two Apollo 11s and one Apollo 15.

1969 Apollo 11 First On The Moon - AD ASTRA PER ASPERA - Medal
1969 Apollo 11 First On The Moon -Armstrong - Collins - Aldrin Medal
1971 Apollo 15 Scott Worden Irwin MOON ROVER Medal

Very nice examples.

They are not "Medals & Other Exonumia" so I cannot post them here.

Nice adds jbuck and pennywise

I've always wondered about the actual amount of space-flown silver contained in medals such as the posted Franklin Mint Apollo 14 medal. For most of the medals that were produced and marketed, there is not enough information available to derive a potential amount in each individual medal. The above post, however, gave me the piece of info that I needed to approximate a percentage (at least for this medal) - the COA states that 10,000 grains of space-flown silver was melted into the silver used to produce the medals.

There were 129,449 of these Apollo 14 medals produced. They are 13 mm in diameter (smaller than a US dime [17.9mm] and a US silver 3-cent piece [14.3mm]) and have a weight of approximately 0.7 grams.

Doing a quick conversion of grams to grains, 0.7 grams equals 10.8 grains.

So, doing some quick calculations, we have 129,449 x 10.8 = 1,398,049 grains of silver needed for the striking of the medals.

10,000 grains of space-flown silver divided by 1.398 million grains of total silver = 0.715 -- i.e., less than 1%. Not very much! (But cool nonetheless!)

All of the silver was in space at some point, having been birthed from a dying star. That is a much cooler fact in my opinion.

I most heartily agree and would add that according to Carl Sagan we are all made of star stuff.