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½ Dollar - Charles III Friendship 7
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Technique | Coloured, Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | FRIENDSHIP 7 1962 NASA |
| Edge | Reeded © Zbigniew60 |
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Charles III "Friendship" issues from Samoa are private mint products — legal tender by arrangement but designed entirely for the collector market, with no meaningful circulation history. The Friendship 7 designation references John Glenn's Mercury capsule from February 1962, the mission that made him the first American to orbit Earth. Glenn completed three orbits before splashing down in the Atlantic, a flight that carried enormous political weight at the height of the Space Race.
NASA retained Glenn's capsule; it is now at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.