Medal - Man in Space Mercury VI

Features

Location	United States
Type	Advertising medallions
Year	1969
Composition	Bronze
Weight	6.5 g
Diameter	26.25 mm
Thickness	1.60 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 105576

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Commemorative issue

Glendinning Man in Space Set - U.S. Manned Space Missions Automatically translated

Series: Glendinning Companies - Man in Space

Obverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
MERCURY VI
JOHN H. GLENN

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
MERCURY VI
MISSION:
MANNED
ORBIT OF
THE EARTH.
ROCKET:
ATLAS D
FEB. 20, 1962

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Danbury Mint, Norwalk, Connecticut, United States (1969-date)

Comments

Set of 22 medals.

http://www.spacecollection.info/medal_sets/coin_sets.html
http://www.billjamie.com/Shell/Shell-Coin-Game/Man-In-Space/Man-In-Space.html

The Glendinning Company issued this set of small bronze medals in 1969 at the time of the Apollo 12 mission. The set featured a brief mission summary on the back of each medal. Subsequent releases were in aluminum and had the words "Man in Space" on the backs. Shell oil also distributed a variation that replaced the words with the shell logo instead.

Glendinning Companies, Inc. produced the game pieces, game prizes, and all the associated promotional materials. Glendinning used their newly-created subsidiary, The Danbury Mint, to strike the medallions and medals.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1969)

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