A new coin will be issued in the UAE to commemorate the first Emirati astronaut.
The 40-gram silver coin will be sold on Sunday for AED300 at the Central Bank UAE headquarters (CBUAE HQ) and its branches.
The coin was also issued to memorialise the historic space mission carried out by Hazza Al Mansoori.


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