fme_676479 - CONQUEST SPACE - SPACE EXPLORATION Médaille, The spirit of the space age
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Price : 100.00 €
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Médaille, The spirit of the space age
Date: 1963
Mint name / Town : Society of Medalists
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 72,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver Karen Worth (1924-
Weight : 234,95 g.
Edge : lisse + MEDALLIC ART CO. N.Y. BRONZE
Puncheon : BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des concrétions vertes au revers. Traces de manipulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : AD ASTRA PER ASPERA.
Obverse description : Homme posé sur une étoile, signé : K. WORTH 1963.
Reverse
Reverse legend : THE SPIRIT OF THE SPACE AGE.
Reverse description : Couple dansant sous le regard d’une figure spirituelle tenant une planète, éclairs de part et d’autre.
Commentary
Exemplaire dans sa boîte de la Société américaine de la médaille MEDALLIC ART CO. NEW YORK et accompagné de sa notice explicative.
example in its box from the American Medal Society MEDALLIC ART CO. NEW YORK and accompanied by its explanatory note
example in its box from the American Medal Society MEDALLIC ART CO. NEW YORK and accompanied by its explanatory note
Historical background
CONQUEST SPACE - SPACE EXPLORATION
from 1944
The exploration of space, sometimes called the conquest of space, consists of the physical exploration of space, that is to say of all objects outside the Earth. The exploration of the solar system constitutes the first stage, one of the major events of the second half of the 20th century on the scientific level, but also more broadly for our societies, by the prodigious expansion of this new frontier..
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