Museum of money of Feodosia
>> COINS WITH UKRAINIAN THEME
     >> KAZAKHSTAN
         >> Spaceships 'Soyuz – Apollo'.
SPACESHIPS 'SOYUZ – APOLLO'.
Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov (January 12 [O.S. December 30 1906] 1907, Zhytomyr – January 14, 1966, Moscow), was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer. He is considered by many as the father of practical astronautics.
S.P. Korolyov also had in work the design for the Soyuz manned spacecraft (which many years later went on to carry the first space tourists), as well as the Luna vehicles that would soft-land on the Moon and make unmanned missions to Mars and Venus.
The Soyuz program (meaning 'Union') is a human spaceflight program that was initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. It was originally part of a Moon landing program intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. Both the Soyuz spacecraft and the Soyuz rocket are part of this program, which is now the responsibility of the Russian Federal Space Agency.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was the last mission in the Apollo program and was the first joint flight of the U.S. and Soviet space programs. The mission took place in July 1975.
For the United States of America, it was the last Apollo flight, as well as the last manned space launch until the flight of the first Space Shuttle in April 1981.

en.wikipedia.org

Click to enlarge!

Denomination: 50 Tenge Year: 2009 Material: German silver Description: Commemorative coin 'Spaceships 'Soyuz – Apollo'. Obverse: The composition, which symbolizes the unity of a man and the universe, bonds of past and present; the face value of the coin '50 ТЕҢГЕ'; two legends 'ҚАЗАҚСТАН YЛТТЫҚ БАНКI' and 'REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN'. Reverse: The image of the Soviet spaceship 'Soyuz-19' and American spaceship 'Apollo', they realized the joining on the near-earth orbit of joint experimental flight program; the name of the coin is indicated in Kazakh 'СОЮЗ-АПОЛЛОН' and in English 'SOYUZ-APOLLO'; '2009' means the year of coinage. Diameter – 31 mm, weight – 11.17 g., thickness – 2 mm, edge – is grooved with 10 sectors of corrugation. Put in circulation since April 18, 2009. Mintage: 50 000. The coin was struck at the National Bank of Kazakhstan Mint. Country or town: Kazakhstan

Denomination: 500 Tenge Year: 2009 Material: Bimetal Description: Commemorative coin 'Spaceships 'Soyuz – Apollo'. Obverse: The composition, which symbolizes the unity of a man and the universe, bonds of past and present; the fact value of the coin '500 ТЕҢГЕ'; two legends 'ҚАЗАҚСТАН YЛТТЫҚ БАНКI' and 'REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN'. Beneath the face value – the Mint logo of the National Bank of Kazakhstan and inscriptions: 'Ag 925 14.6 gr. Та 26.8 gr.' mean the designation of metals and its pure weight. Reverse: The image of the Soviet spaceship 'Soyuz-19' and American spaceship 'Apollo', they realized the joining on the near-earth orbit of joint experimental flight program; the name of the coin is indicated in Kazakh 'СОЮЗ-АПОЛЛОН' and in English 'SOYUZ-APOLLO'; '2009' means the year of coinage. Bimetal. Metal of ring – 925 standard silver, weight – 14.6 g., metal of insert – tantalus, weight – 38.61 g., total weight – 41.4 g. Edge – grooved. Put in circulation since April 18, 2009. Mintage: 4 000. The coin was struck at the National Bank of Kazakhstan Mint. FMM hasn't got this coin yet. Country or town: Kazakhstan

---

---