Apollo 11 Coin someone's grandfather received for helping design and build the velocity sensor

Kurisu

Someone posted this a few hours ago on reddit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/108ryvc/apollo_11_coin_that_my_grandfather_received_for/

ricko

The post has been removed... Too bad you did not get a screen shot of the coin. Cheers, RickO

JBK

Someone posted there:

"Apollo 11 medallion issued by the NASA Manned Flight Awareness Office in 1970. The Barco Mint of New Orleans struck 200,000 medallions for the space agency, made in part from a heat shield bolt removed from the command module Columbia and a pulley clamp returned to Earth from the lunar module Eagle.

The medallions were issued to NASA employees and contractors in several formats. Some were accompanied by certificates, others were mounted in acrylic stands."

Zoins

@JBK said:
Someone posted there:

"Apollo 11 medallion issued by the NASA Manned Flight Awareness Office in 1970. The Barco Mint of New Orleans struck 200,000 medallions for the space agency, made in part from a heat shield bolt removed from the command module Columbia and a pulley clamp returned to Earth from the lunar module Eagle.

The medallions were issued to NASA employees and contractors in several formats. Some were accompanied by certificates, others were mounted in acrylic stands."

These used to be more common. I like the ones with the certificates as they generally have the name of the person being awarded the medal.

Zoins

Here's a thread on these:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/607023/does-anyone-here-collect-space-flown-nasa-medallions-semi-ot

Kurisu

@ricko said:
The post has been removed... Too bad you did not get a screen shot of the coin. Cheers, RickO

Note to self, for next time lol.
I messaged the OP there and asked if they might repost it in the coin forum...then we'll get to see it. It's in a cool little presentation case with an eagle button

@Zoins said:
Here's a thread on these:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/607023/does-anyone-here-collect-space-flown-nasa-medallions-semi-ot

Thanks Zoins I appreciate that... but all the images are broken. So I'm not sure if the same coin is shown there.