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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Luna 9

Issuer Niue
Year 1992
Type Collector coin
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Reverse script Latin
Reverse lettering MOON LANDING LUNA 9 10 DOLLARS
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Additional information

Luna 9 was the Soviet probe that achieved the first successful soft landing on the Moon in February 1966, transmitting the first photographs taken from the lunar surface — images that immediately disproved the theory that the Moon's surface was covered in deep, ship-swallowing dust. Niue, a self-governing island territory in free association with New Zealand, began issuing commemorative silver rounds through licensed programs in the early 1990s, with the space exploration series among the first.

The KM#70 attribution places this within a documented sequence, though Niue's commemorative output from this period was primarily sold to collectors rather than circulated on the island itself.

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