Concorde 50p (2026)

The Concorde 50p was sold only to collectors, so packaging and condition set its price. A coin in the Royal Mint pack sells above an unpackaged coin or one in a third-party certified pack. Fingerprints and hairline marks on the lettering or across the map reduce the price, as do toning spots, so a coin handled outside its pack sells lower.

The Concorde 50p was not issued for circulation, so it has no rarity rank.

Two views of Concorde crossing a map, with CONCORDE across the middle in split-flap letters like an airport departure board, identify this coin. Look for the place names London, Paris, Bahrain and Rio De Janeiro on the map, the date 21 JANUARY 1976 beneath the name and the initials AR DO. With King Charles III on the obverse, it is a collector coin that never entered circulation.

Concorde began as a joint British and French project, agreed by treaty in 1962, to build an airliner that could fly faster than sound. On 21 January 1976 it carried its first fare-paying passengers, and in service it cruised at more than twice the speed of sound, setting records such as a New York to London crossing in under three hours in 1996. The Royal Mint marked the fiftieth anniversary of those first flights with this coin. Osborne Ross, the design partnership of Andrew Ross and Deborah Osborne, shows Concorde twice over a map of Africa, Eurasia and South America: in profile above the name and from above below it. The inaugural routes are traced on the map, with London, Paris, Bahrain and Rio De Janeiro named. CONCORDE is spelled out across the centre in split-flap departure-board lettering, with 21 JANUARY 1976 at the bottom and the initials AR DO at the right. King Charles III appears on the obverse in the portrait by Martin Jennings.