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Jack Swigert's Own Apollo 17 Flown Robbins Medal, Serial Number 41

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/29/2014

Apollo 17 Robbins medal, serial number 41. Sterling silver medal commemorates Apollo 17 as the most recent lunar landing conducted by NASA to date. The mission launched 7 December 1972 and returned safely twelve days later. Pictorial obverse is cast with mission insignia, featuring stylized design elements of the U.S. flag and an eagle, alongside a bust in profile of Greek god Apollo. Figures are set against a detailed space ground featuring the moon and ringed planets. Scene is circumscribed by title, ''Apollo XVII / Cernan-Evans-Schmitt''. Reverse reads, ''Launch / Dec. 6, 1972 / Taurus-Littrow / Dec. 11, 1972 / Entry / Dec. 19, 1972'', circumscribed, ''America - Challenger / Apollo XVII The Beginning''. Coin measures 1.25'' and is made of sterling silver, housed in its original ''Robbins Company'' plastic box with an ''41'' sticker on the bottom. Fine. With an LOA from Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert's sister.