1 Shilling Supermarine Spitfire

Zimbabwe has no historical or constitutional connection to the shilling denomination, making this a frankly unusual issue — the country adopted the US dollar as its primary currency after the catastrophic hyperinflation that destroyed the Zimbabwean dollar by 2009. This piece belongs to a wave of legal-tender collectible coins issued by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe from the mid-2010s onward, targeting the international collector market rather than domestic circulation, with denominations invented wholesale for the purpose.

The Spitfire's first flight was in March 1936 from Eastleigh Aerodrome, Southampton, piloted by Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summers.