50 Dollars First Manned Lunar Vehicle

Issued the same year NASA was commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Apollo 11, this Marshall Islands piece rode a wave of official and semi-official lunar anniversary issues that flooded the market in 1989. The Republic of the Marshall Islands, which gained sovereignty under a Compact of Free Association with the United States in 1986, leaned heavily on American historical themes in its early commemorative program — a deliberate appeal to U.S. collector demographics rather than any particular national connection to the subject matter.