½ Dollar 50th Anniversary of Apollo

Reverse

A close-up of the photograph ‘Buzz Aldrin on the Moon’ taken July 20, 1969, showing a reflection in Buzz Aldrin’s helmet includes astronaut Neil Armstrong, the United States flag, and the lunar lander.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HALF DOLLAR
E PLURIBUS UNUM
PH

Translation: Out of many, one

Engraver: Phebe Hemphill

Designer: Phebe Hemphill

Edge

Reeded

Comment

About
The world eagerly watched on July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” E. Aldrin, Jr. took mankind’s first steps on the Moon. This unprecedented engineering, scientific, and political achievement was the culmination of the efforts of an estimated 400,000 Americans and secured our Nation’s leadership in space for generations to come. The Apollo 11 crew—Armstrong, Aldrin, and Michael Collins—safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969, fulfilling the national goal set in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. Nearly half a century later, the United States is the only country ever to have attempted and succeeded in landing humans on a celestial body other than Earth and safely returning them home.

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon, Public Law 114-282 authorizes a four-coin program: a curved $5 gold coin, a curved $1 silver coin, a curved half-dollar clad coin, and a curved 5 ounce $1 silver proof coin.

As required by the Public Law, the Mint invited American artists to design a common obverse image that is emblematic of the United States Space Program leading up to the first manned Moon landing. The Secretary of the Treasury selected the design from a juried competition. Gary Cooper of Belfast, Maine, created the winning design in the Apollo 11 Commemorative Coin Design Competition.

Prices for the coins include surcharges of $35 for each gold coin, $10 for each silver coin, $5 for each half dollar clad coin and $50 for each five ounce proof silver dollar coin, which the law authorizes to be paid as follows:
one-half to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum’s “Destination Moon” exhibit,
one-quarter to the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, and
one-quarter to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.

Mintage
The proof of the clad coin, minted in San Francisco, was also sold in several set products.

Apollo 11 50th Anniversary 2019 Proof Half Dollar Set


2019 Proof Australian Lunar Landing Silver and Cupro-Nickel 2-Coin Set


2019 Apollo 11 50th Anniversary 2-Coin Spanish Set

Interesting fact

Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
2019 D	41748	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019 S	66824	-	-	-	-	-	-

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