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20 Dollars Mission Apollo XII
| Issuer | Republic of Liberia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE 2000 REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA 20 DOLLARS |
| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed scene from the Apollo XII lunar mission, showing two astronauts in full spacesuits on the surface of the Moon. One astronaut stands to the right operating equipment near the Lunar Module, while the other tends to instruments at left beside an erected American flag and deployed scientific apparatus. The scene is rendered in fine relief against a smooth field evoking the lunar surface. The legend CONRAD * GORDON * BEAN - MISSION APOLLO XII arcs along the upper periphery, naming the three crew members, and the denomination $20 appears in the lower field. |
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Apollo 12 landed on the Ocean of Storms in November 1969, just four months after Apollo 11, and remains notable for the lightning strike that hit the Saturn V during launch — twice, within 36 seconds — briefly knocking out the command module's fuel cells before mission controllers in Houston guided the crew through a manual reset. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean spent just under 32 hours on the lunar surface, recovering hardware from the unmanned Surveyor 3 probe that had been sitting there since 1967.
Liberia issued a long series of commemorative dollars around 2000 tied to the Apollo program. KM# 661 belongs to that run.