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The Apollos Coin Set?

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 Posted 02/24/2020  1:41 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bravo30 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
looking for some help identifying these coins. I got this set from my grandfather in law and havent been able to find anything on it. the closet I have found has been a franklin mint set with an identical blue leather book but depicting different images on the coins.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthope...s-1816146581

i checked the Franklin mint website and they only list a Sterling Set and like above, the coins dont match.

https://franklin-mint-silver.com/fr...edal-set.htm


theres 13 coins total in a blue leather book with silver lettering. the coins appear to be copper. the paperwork inside is from the U.S Mint here in Philadelphia (were from philadelphia as well and my GIA bought a lot of stuff from there)


thoughts?


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 Posted 02/24/2020  2:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bravo30 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
heres a few more pictures of the coins. best I can do with the plastic film being there.


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 Posted 02/24/2020  3:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Circus to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is a US mint set of medals. As with most mint items worth very little even if you have the paper work the two sheets you pictured. Can sell for as little as $1.00 a medalet or a couple bucks and $2.00/3.00 for the album.
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 Posted 02/24/2020  6:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bravo30 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
and just like that, theyre worthless ....boom!


on the plus side, I learned a lot while researching US mint and Franklin Mint medals so that makes me a wealtheir man in the long run!


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 Posted 02/24/2020  8:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add commems to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@bravo30: The Apollo medal set you've displayed was not struck by the US Mint. The paper work you have shown with the set is from a regular US Mint proof set and has nothing to do with the medal set. Also, the medals shown are not proof pieces.

The medals were produced by The Franklin Mint on behalf of the Peoples National Bank of New Jersey as part of a special "Apollo Passbook Savings Program" it was running; the medals were issued in 1970.

The individual bronze medals sold for $0.75 each; the full set cost $9.75. A small number of sets (75) were produced in sterling silver, but these were not for sale - they were presentation pieces. 2,500 of the bronze medal sets were struck.

The medal set is not commonplace. A defining feature of the set is its inclusion of medals for unmanned Apollo missions. I believe you could get $30 or more for the set in the album from a collector of space medals. (I would try to get a bit more considering its scarcity in today's marketplace.)

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 Posted 02/24/2020  8:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Circus to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Problem is two fold, space collecting items aren't as popular as it once was. Plus Google Apollo space mission medals images There are hundreds or more. anybody and their sister could hve them made and sell them and they did. Like US proof coin sets most are worth more as money than collectors items.
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 Posted 03/02/2020  2:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add commems to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree that the collecting area may not be hot at the moment, but regardless of current popularity or how many similarly-themed medals might be available in the marketplace, it only takes one buyer to have a desire for a given set and recognize it as something more than common to get a fair price when sold.

I've seen such a scenario happen for many medal sets for which the buyer and seller were both educated about what it was. I've also seen buyers "steal" a set from a dealer that did not know what he had - as always, education is the key!

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