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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Bristol Beaufighter
| Issuer | Czech Mint (Česká mincovna) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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The Bristol Beaufighter entered RAF service in 1940 and quickly earned a reputation among Luftwaffe crews, who nicknamed it "Whispering Death" — a reference to the unusually quiet Hercules radial engines that gave attacking pilots almost no audible warning. Czechoslovak airmen flew it extensively in Coastal Command, particularly in anti-shipping strikes along Norwegian fjords and the Bay of Biscay.
The Czech Mint has issued this as part of a broader aviation series honoring Czechoslovak RAF veterans, a politically resonant project given how systematically those men were persecuted after returning home in 1945 to a communist-influenced government that viewed Western service with open suspicion.