100 Riyals - Mohammed Apollo XII

Reverse

Four shields (Apollo 11, Apollo 10, Apollo 9, and a 4th shield) on moon background at left, heads of the 3 astronauts of Apollo XII with their names aligned on large shield at right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
APOLLO 11
APOLLO
X
STAFFORD YOUN CERNAN
Mc DIVITT SCOTT SCHWEICKART
APOLLO IX

CHARLES CONRAD
RICHARD GORDON
ALAN BEAN
APOLLO XII

Edge

Reeded

Comment

Issue Date: 16 June 1969

Presentation Box & COA:


© Zameer Abubakar

Reported mintage of 5,000 sets for KM#PS6

Official Proof Set (unlisted in Krause) containing 2 silver and 2 gold coins (KM#4, 5, 9 & 10) dated AH1388-1969, for Apollo XI and Apollo XII:

© Steve Desouza

Official Proof Set (unlisted in Krause) containing all 9 silver and 9 gold coins of Fujairah:

© Image courtesy of UAE Coin Collectors Club

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon (an H type mission). It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Mission commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms.
Unlike the first landing on Apollo 11, Conrad and Bean achieved a precise landing at their expected location, the site of the Surveyor 3 unmanned probe, which had landed on April 20, 1967. They carried the first color television camera to the lunar surface on an Apollo flight, but transmission was lost after Bean accidentally destroyed the camera by pointing it at the Sun. On one of two moonwalks, they visited the Surveyor and removed some parts for return to Earth. The mission ended on November 24 with a successful splashdown.

Interesting fact

Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
1388 (1969)	3040	-	-	-	-	-	-

Values in the table are based on evaluations by sales realized on Internet platforms. They serve as an indication only for 100 Riyals - Mohammed (Apollo XII) 1388-1389 (1969-1970) coin.