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Asbury Park PressSunday, June 4, 1 989 F5 lOBBIES A great deal on a great air conditioner. Stamp recalls '69 moon step If I the best iVf.W The Postal Service retained veteran illustrator Paul Calle to design a 10-cent airmail stamp in 1969 showing Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong taking his first step on the the moon that famous, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Twenty years later, Calle's son, Christopher, was hired to design the $2.40 stamp that will mark the 20th anniversary of that July 20 event. It shows two astronauts, presumably Armstrong and former Brielle resident Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin placing a U.S.

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What's more, if your Cheques are ever lost or stolen, they're refundable 24 hours a day. So stop in at one of our AAA offices before you take off on your next vacation. With AAA and American Express Travelers Cheques, you'll get a George July 20 in Washington as part of anniversary celebrations being planned by the National Air and Space Museum. It is the first stamp to be printed expressly for priority mail, which assures two-day service between all major cities and three-day service anywhere in the nation. Postal regulations prohibit depicting living persons on stamps.

For this reason the Postal Service never said the astronaut on Paul Calle's 1969 stamp design was Armstrong, and isn't saying the pair shown on the new stamp are Armstrong and Aldrin. You can't see facial features through the viewplates on the astronaut's flight suits. But who else could they be if not Armstrong and Aldrin? Astronaut Michael Collins, the third member of the Apollo 11 crew, never left the ship that carried the lunar module to the moon. Both designers say they relied on photos of astronauts practicing various maneuvers prior to the first moon landing. Presumably, one of the figures depicted on either of the stamps could be a janitor at the Houston Space Center.

But that's unlikely. The stamp is expected to be printed in red, blue and brown, as was the 1989 adhesive. But while that stamp was printed in what has come to be known as jumbo size, the $2.40 will be in the same size as the Express Mail and Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation stamps. When he designed the Moon Landing stamp, the senior Calle had been associated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's fine arts program for some time. He captured on canvas scenes of the Mercury, Gemini and early Apollo space programs, and was with the three members of the Apollo 11 team on the morning of their historic flight.

His son hasn't been as close to the space program, but still has created an attractive design. It's unfortunate that few people other than stamp collectors will ever see it. That's because most piority mil items are franked with postage meter strips rather than actual stamps. Some details about the $2.40 stamp, including the colors being used, are still sketchy. But postal officials have set an Aug.

19 deadline for sending first-day cancellation requests to Postmaster, Washington, D.C. 20066. mm brown Nj and off. SAW tCM lot more mileage out of the trip. Travelers Cheques oversize letters to inform us that the stamp subject is indeed a pretzel and not an umbrella, or the onion stamp would depict a rare type found only on some remote Pacific island that bears no resemblance to those onions we pull from the lawn each spring.

The committee was formed to select important events to be marked on stamps and to obtain attractive designs. Unfortunately, with a few notable exceptions, it has failed at both tasks. Collector's Calendar Today -Stamp, coin and baseball card bourse, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Aspen Hotel-Manor, 808 Route 46, Parsippany-Troy Hills. Wednesday Ocean County Stamp Club, 7:30 p.m., Presbyterian Church of Toms River, Hooper Avenue at Chestnut Street, Dover Township. First day of issue, $1 Johns Hopkins stamp, Great Americans series, Baltimore, Md.

21233. Saturday First day of issue, 25-cent Lou Gehrig stamp, sports series, Cooperstown, N.Y. 13326. Hightstown Stamp Bourse, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Hightstown Country Club, Route 33 and Monmouth Street. George Brown received an award for excellent writing on stamps from the Kansas City Stamp Club in the only national stamp-writing contest.

Stamps appears Sundays. JOIN 2J) TODAY CALL Ever wonder what criteria the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee uses in selecting artists to prepare stamp designs and in making the final selection from several possible sketches submitted by the designer? We'd certainly like to know why Connecticut artists are tapped so often, and why so many stamp designs are marred by billboard lettering. Hobbyists in the Washington, D.C, area will have a chance to find out Nov. 18 when the committee holds what may be its first public seminar as part of World Stamp Expo. That's a Saturday, so the meeting room should be crowded for the 1:30 p.m.

session. "The Postal Service gets thousands of letters each month recommending topics for new stamps," said Belmont Faries, committee chairman. "Of course, there are a few wild proposals, like a pretzel stamp with beer-flavored glue or a scratch-and-sniff stamp to honor wild onions." If these stamps were issued, we fear the committee would decide we needed AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY Ocean Plaza, Route 35 Sunset Avenue, Ocean, NJ 07712 (201)918-0550 British gold coin top 'beauty' i i Buy A PairOf Glasses, Get A Second Fair Free! FREE GLASSES FREE GLASSES The "Britannia" won top honors as "Coin of The Year" for Its design. A Since the official language of the Coin Roundup Edward R0CHETTE fir i There was a time when sponsors of regional coin conventions tried parading bathing suit-clad young ladies, draped with ribbons proclaiming "Miss Coin Collecting," around the convention floor. Thankfully, these chauvinistic programs dubbed "promotion" never caught on in numismatics.

Nevertheless, the hobby does have an annual beauty pageant all its own. While judges pay scant attention to gender or talent, they do focus a judicious eye on beauty and rate the popularity of the contestants. The pageant is on a Miss Universe scale since contestants enter from all over the world. The runway on which they parade is in Iola, and sponsor of the annual event is Krause Publications parent firm of Numismatic News and Coins magazine. Winners earn no Miss or Mrs.

title. They become known more succinctly as the "Coins of the Year." This year, Britain's entry won easily over its closest competitor, the United States' Constitution commemorative silver dollar, for the annual design classic. However, the sponsors succumbed to the temptation of beauty pageant prose in announcing the award. Britain's gold bullion coin was described as featuring "the svelte, ultramodern version of the female personification of Britannia." Officially dubbed the "Britannia" by Her Majesty's government, the coin was also named "Best Gold Coin" and "Most Artistic Coin" of the year. If it is any consolation to U.S.

Mint officials, the American commemorative silver dollar picked up the "Most Popular Coin" honors. The other entries were, in the order of their finish: United States $5 gold, Bicentennial of the Constitution (Most Buy a complete pair of glasses at regular price and get a second pair (same prescription) free from our specially tagged collection. Oiler includes most single vision ond bifocal prescriptions Some lens restrictions apply valid through 73089 at participating Peorie locations. Minimum first pair purchase $75. Tints, UV and No-Scratch Coatings are available at regular cost Complete glasses include frames and lenses.

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If it is a proof issue, you will find that it catalogs for $60. have in my possession a large silver coin dated 1780. It has the head of a woman on one side and a coat of arms on the other. Enclosed is a rubbing. A.H.F., Lakehurst, N.J.

A. The coin is not as old as the date indicates. You have a trade dollar that has been issued intermittently over the years by various government mints. It is still being made in Vienna today and trades a little above the price of silver. Edward C.

Rochette has been executive vice president of the American Numismatic Association since 1972 after being editor of the ANA Journal six years. Previously, he was executive editor of Numismatic News and Coins Magazine, leading coin magazines. ENA PEARLE Historically Significant); Cook Islands, $50 silver, Olympics (Best Crown); Switzerland, cupronickel 5-francs, Cor-busier (Best Trade coin), and Canada, $1 silver, Davis Strait (Best Silver Coin). The contest, which began in 1982, has seen the United States take top honors on three occasions and Canada, Finland, and Great Britain once each. The panel of judges consists of experts in the coin field, including mint and central bank officials, coin distributors, numismatic association officials, engravers, museum curators and individual experts such as authors and veteran dealers.

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