Medal Pattern - Valentina Tereshkova

Features

Location	Soviet Union (Russia)
Period	Soviet Union (1922-1991)
Type	Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year	1964
Composition	Tombac
Diameter	29.1 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 581179
References	Shkurko# 369 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

Valentina Tereshkova - Space Flight of the First Woman in the World

Obverse

Head of the cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova facing right

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
ВАЛЕНТИНА ТЕРЕШКОВА
Г.ПОСТНИКОВ 1964

Translation:
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA
G.POSTNIKOV

Engraver: Grigoriy Nikolaevich Postnikov

Reverse

Man and rocket ship soaring into space with the date of Tereshkova's space flight

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
ПОЛЕТ В КОСМОС
ПЕРВОЙ ЖЕНЩИНЫ
В МИРЕ 16-19 · VI · 1963
СССР

Translation:
SPACE FLIGHT
OF THE FIRST WOMAN
IN THE WORLD
USSR

Engraver: Grigoriy Nikolaevich Postnikov

Edge

Plain

Mint

Moscow Mint (Московский монетный двор), Russian Federation (?-date)

Comments

The fineness and weight were erased from the reverse of this pattern strike.

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					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1964)												probably unique

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