This is the first time that US Mint work together with another National Currency to design a commemorative coin set, according to the statements of the head of the marketing department of the Australian Mint, that the NUMISMAG team met in BERLIN in February 2019.
These coin issues are complemented by a coin set jointly developed by the US Mint and the Royal Australian Mint. The original tapes had been returned in 1969 to NASA, which then reused part of them to record other Space missions… destroying the original recordings on these tapes! The Australian Geography Society had also reconstructed a new sequence of this adventure from a “pirate” record, kept by an Australian technician. The images broadcast worldwide depicting Man’s first steps on the Moon were therefore images captured by Australian stations. A third observatory located in the United States was also to receive Apollo 11 emissions, but what it received was unusable. These were the Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek observatories in Australia. Indeed, the receiving stations that captured APPOLO 11’s radio and video broadcasts and then retransmitted them through the world were located in Australia. The article will be completed by new coin issues that will be announced worldwide.Īustralia has been very significantly associated with the History of Apollo 11. As we have done since launch of NUMISMAG, for this type of quasi-universal coin issues, our editorial team offers you an article that presents a summary of these issues, marking a major event in our common history. This is the reason why many National Mints around the world have decided to issue commemorative coins to celebrate this event in 2019, year of APPOLO 11 50th anniversary. APPOLO 11 has forever marked the history of space conquest and the history of mankind.