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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II First Supersonic Flight of Concorde
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing uncrowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the George IV State Diadem, as designed by Raphael David Maklouf. The truncation of the bust is draped, and the portrait is rendered in high relief. The issuer name ELIZABETH II GIBRALTAR and the date 2006 are inscribed in a continuous legend encircling the effigy, with the engraver's initials RDM appearing at the truncation. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Concorde's first supersonic flight took place on October 1, 1969, piloted by André Turcat over southern France — a full four years before the aircraft entered commercial service. Gibraltar's embrace of Concorde commemoratives is a product of the island's long-running strategy of issuing collector silver on British prestige subjects, a market largely sustained by the Crown Dependencies in the early 2000s. KM#1321 is one of several Gibraltar issues on aviation themes from this period, all sharing the same 28.28g sterling blank used across dozens of Commonwealth commemorative programs simultaneously.