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Re: commEMOrative gold coin moon landing germany?

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Posted by jim on March 14, 2008 at 08:58:23:

In Reply to: Re: commEMOrative gold coin moon landing germany? posted by Michael Schmidt on March 11, 2008 at 11:46:35:

: You are having difficulty finding information because it is NOT a coin. It is a privately issued medal. And since anyone can stike or have a medal struck at any one of thousands of private mints around the world,and since there is no requirement that they keep or publish any information about what they have made, it is very difficult to find out any information about them. Chances are very good that the piece was only advertised for sale in germany back in 1970, probably for a brief time and probably NOT in numismatic periodicals. For those reasons medals like that usually have very little or no collector base to them and only sell for their bullion content no matter how rare they are.

Thanks makes sense

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: : You are having difficulty finding information because it is NOT a coin.  It is a privately issued medal.  And since anyone can stike or have a medal struck at any one of thousands of private mints around the world,and since there is no requirement that they keep or publish any information about what they have made, it is very difficult to find out any information about them.  Chances are very good that the piece was only advertised for sale in germany back in 1970, probably for a brief time and probably NOT in numismatic periodicals.  For those reasons medals like that usually have very little or no collector base to them and only sell for their bullion content no matter how rare they are.

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