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Uncommon flown Franklin Mint Apollo 14 medallion carried into lunar orbit on the Command Module Kitty Hawk, serial number 0112, approximately 1.5˝ diameter, with its original cardboard holder, annotated and initialed in blue ballpoint by LMP Edgar Mitchell, "Flown on 'Kitty Hawk,' No. 0102, EM." The medal features the Apollo 14 mission insignia on the face, showing the astronaut emblem approaching the moon, leaving a comet trail from the liftoff point on Earth, with the mission and crewmen's surnames in the border; the reverse depicts the lunar surface with a legend reading: "Spacecraft Kitty Hawk & Antares / Destination Fra Mauro—1971." Encapsulated and graded by NGC as "PF 65 Ultra Cameo," with the label noting the provenance, "Ex. Edgar Mitchell."
Accompanied by a handwritten letter of provenance signed by Edgar Mitchell, in full: "This letter will certify that Apollo 14 silver Franklin Mint medallion, serial number 0112 was flown to the moon aboard the spacecraft Kittyhawk on the mission January 31–February 9, 1971. This medallion can be further identified by the edge stamp "Sterling," the "F" Franklin Mint logo, the "71" year issuance date and the "P" to mean a proof striking. This is one of the original 195 flown medallions accounted for in the crew PPK inventories."
These medallions were carried aboard the mission as part of a deal that Commander Alan Shepard struck with the Franklin Mint, and which would trigger a Congressional investigation when the mint melted down some of the returned medallions and started selling 'flown' mini-coins which contained some of the melted silver—one example of which is included. This resulted in a prohibition of flying such medallions in the future.
The Richard Jurek Collection.
