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Coin "First Cosmonaut"

Name | First Cosmonaut |
Presented by | National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
Nominal value | 500 tenge |
Metal | Silver 925° (disk), ring is made of tantalum |
Weight | 16,7 g (disk), 24 g (ring) |
Mintage | 5000 |
Production quality | Proof. The part of the coin is made of tantalum – the metal widely used in aerospace industry |
Description of obverse and reverse | A bi-colored (composite) coin has the round shape consisted of the concentric ring and disk. The internal disk of coin is made of silver; the external ring is made of tantalum. Obverse: the composition symbolizes the human being unity with the world and the connection of the past with the present; the face value of the coin. Reverse: image of U.A. Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, 2011 is 50th anniversary of his space flight; image of orbital spacecraft on a near-earth orbit, numbers. |
A brief annotation | On April 12th 1961 the Soviet Union citizen a major-pilot Uriy A. Gagarin made the first space flight in the world on the orbital spacecraft «Vostok». The coin is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of this event. |
Designer | Artists: Akhverdyan А.S., Basenov А.G. Sculptor: А. Michurov |
Producer | Kazakhstan Mint of National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
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