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10 Pounds - Elizabeth II Last Flight of the Concorde
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Raphael David Maklouf Reverse: Emma Noble |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, rendered in the third definitive portrait by Raphael David Maklouf. The queen's hair is styled in an upswept arrangement with a pearl drop earring visible. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left field and ALDERNEY along the upper right, with the initials RDM discretely placed on the truncation. The date 2003 appears in the lower exergue below the portrait. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Concorde's final commercial flights took place on October 24, 2003, when Air France retired its fleet, followed by British Airways on October 26. The decision to withdraw was driven not by airworthiness concerns alone but by the economic collapse of the aircraft's passenger base after the July 2000 Air France crash near Paris and the post-September 11 downturn — together, they made the already marginal operating economics unworkable.
Alderney, a Crown dependency with no direct stake in British aviation, had nonetheless issued Concorde commemoratives since the 1990s, treating the aircraft as a reliably saleable subject for the collector market. This 155-gram five-ounce piece is among the larger formats in that run.