Luna-24

Luna-24
Catalog #
4661
Date of Issue
1976 17 December
Denomination
10k
Color
Red-brown, yellow, blue
Artist
Paper
Chalk-surfaced
Printing method
Intaglio
Perforation
Harrow 12:11½
Issued
4,800,000
Tags
Space
Description
Flight of Soviet automatic station "Luna-24" (09.08.1976 - 22.08.1976), to deliver to Earth samples of lunar soil. Reverse side of State seal of the station and its appearance on the surface of the moon in the South-Eastern region of Mare crisium.

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