Medal - Yuri Gagarin
Features
| Location |
Soviet Union
(Russia)  |
|---|---|
| Period |
Soviet Union (1922-1991)
|
| Type | Commemorative medals › Personality medals |
| Year | 1964 |
| Composition | Gold (.900) |
| Weight | 17 g |
| Diameter | 29.1 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 581016 |
| References | Shkurko# 343 Alla Semyonovna Shkurko, Andrey Yuryevich Salykov; 2005. Памятная медаль советского периода 1919-1991 = Commemorative Medals of the Soviet Period 1919-1991 (2005). Gosudarstvennyi istoricheskiĭ muzeĭ, Moscow, Russian Federation. |
Commemorative issue
Yuri Gagarin - First Man in Space
Obverse
Head of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin facing left with Cyrillic lettering on left.
Script: Cyrillic
Lettering:
ЮРИЙ ГАГАРИН
Г.ПОСТНИКОВ 1964
Translation:
YURI GAGARIN
G.POSTNIKOV
Engraver: Grigoriy Nikolaevich Postnikov
Reverse
Man and rocket ship soaring into space with the date of Gagarin's space flight, CCCP and fineness.
Script: Cyrillic
Lettering:
ПЕРВЫЙ
КОСМОНАВТ МИРА
12 · IV · 1961
СССР
900ᐤ
17 г
Translation:
FIRST
COSMONAUT OF THE WORLD
USSR
17 g
Engraver: Grigoriy Nikolaevich Postnikov
Edge
Plain
Mint
Moscow Mint (Московский монетный двор), Russian Federation (?-date)Comments
The reverse can bear several countermarks: “МД СССР” (it means Монетный двор СССР, or Mint of the USSR), “HB”.
The item was distributed outside USSR by the Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR (Vneshtorgbank).
The reverse depicts a monument of "Glory to the conquerors of space" by architect Lev Lavrenov and sculptor Grigoriy Postnikov. It was erected in Monino (Moscow region, USSR) on 25.10.1962, in the presence of Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin, Andriyan Nikolaev and Pavel Popovich.
(image by Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation, №1-14013)
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| ND (1964) | 936 | ||||||||||||||
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Actual gold weight: 0.492 oz
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