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Concorde Commemorative 50p Coin Unveiled by Royal Mint
The coin honors Concorde's legacy and British engineering, with design input from original engineers and partnerships with British Airways and Airbus, priced from £15.
- The Royal Mint revealed a new 50p coin today, available from 9am on Tuesday at the Royal Mint website starting from 15.
- Designed by Osborne Ross, the coin celebrates Concorde's speed and elegance and marks the 50th anniversary since its first commercial flight, the Royal Mint said.
- Produced in partnership with British Airways and Airbus, the coin's reverse depicts Concorde in flight against a split‑flap departure board with 'Concorde' across the centre.
- As a tribute, the Mint said the release honors Concorde engineers and John Britton, former chief engineer of Concorde, said it lets his children and grandchildren hold a piece of that legacy.
- In the 1960s, Concorde originated from a joint venture between Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation that produced a slender supersonic aircraft, while some Concorde engineers helped design the UK's 50p seven‑sided curve introduced in 1969.
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