1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Moon Landing

Features

Commemorative issue

50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Obverse

Sixth effigy of Queen Elizabeth II with weight, purity, year and value below.

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA
1 OZ 9999 Ag
2019
1 DOLLAR

Engraver: Jody Clark

Jody Clark is a British engraver employed by the Royal Mint, notable for designing the fifth and latest portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to feature on coins of the pound sterling.

Reverse

Representation of the Lunar Module Eagle landing on the Moon behind a large footprint on the Moon's surface.

Lettering:
MOON LANDING
1969-2019
P

Engraver: Lucas Bowers

Edge

Reeded

Comments

The successful landing of United States spacecraft Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle on the Moon was watched by more than half a billion people in 1969. Humanity collectively held its breath as astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface, proclaiming, “That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind”. The pulse of humanity rose as Apollo 11 was launched on 16 July 1969. An estimated 600 million people across the world watched on TV – thanks in part to Australia’s CSIRO Parkes radio telescope and NASA’s Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra – as it made its successful flight to the Moon.
The 1969 achievement of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, paved the way for continued development of advanced technology to explore Earth, the Moon, other planets and the distant reaches of space.

See also

• Space

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