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10 Francs Moon landing
| Issuer | Banki Nkuru y'u Rwanda (National Bank of Rwanda) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The central device depicts a large astronaut bootprint impressed in lunar regolith, rendered in fine textured relief to convey the granular surface of the Moon. To the lower left, a stylized globe and the circular monogram logo of the issuing authority (CA) are placed within the field. The peripheral legend ICONS OF THE WORLD 2019 arcs along the upper portion of the coin, while the lower legend reads .9999 FINEST GOLD 1/200 OZ OR PUR, confirming the purity and weight of the piece. The composition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing of 1969. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Rwanda has become a prolific issuer of themed collector coinage through licensing arrangements with the European Coin Program and similar distributors, which is the actual origin of this piece — not any domestic commemoration. The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 generated a wave of numismatic releases across dozens of issuing authorities in 2019, most with no geographic connection to the event whatsoever.
At 0.155 g, this sits in the fractional miniature gold category pioneered partly by the Cook Islands and Palau programs in the 2010s.