Apollo 17 Vintage Commemorative Coin Medal in Original Holder Copper Alloy

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Rare Estate Find
Apollo 17
Vintage Commemorative Coin Medal in Original Holder Copper Alloy
Comes with Original Holder
Composition: Bronze
Weight: 24.0 grams
Diameter: 38 mm
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program,
the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit.
Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon,
while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional
geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle, as NASA had been under
pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science
meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment
containing five mice that was carried in the command module.
While I have seen similar bronze coin/medals (same obverse) commemorating
the Apollo 11 mission, I have not been able to find this particular coin
demonstrating its rarity along the space collecting community
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