100th Anniversary of Graf Zeppelin $20 3oz .999 pure silver coin. Among the most spectacular of its 590 flights that covered over 1.7 million km were around the world flight in 1929 and the polarflight of 1931 which is depicted on the obverse of this coin along with a fabric fragment that covered the LZ127 prior to being scrapped in 1940 by the German military. Mintage: 499 pcs. worldwide. Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (8 July 1838 ? 8 March 1917) was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer, who founded the Zeppelin airship company. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #127; Registration: D-LZ 127) was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937. When it entered commercial service in 1928, it became the first commercial passenger transatlantic flight service in the world. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was a count (Graf) in the German nobility. During its operating life, the airship made 590 flights covering more than 1.7 million kilometers (over 1 million miles). It was designed to be operated by a crew of 36 officers and men. The LZ 127 was the longest rigid airship at the time of its completion and was only surpassed by the USS Akron in 1931. It was scrapped for fighter plane parts in 1940.
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