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Pillar of the Community
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Festival of Britain Crown 1951 I recently read the history book Austerity Britain 1945-1951 by by David Kynaston, published in 2008. It was about the period after World War II when Britain's economy was in bad shape and the country had food and other rationing. In 1951, to take people's minds off of the austerity situation, Britain held a world's fair type exposition called the Festival of Britain, and issued 2,000,000 copper-nickel crown coins to commemorate it. The book was interesting enough that I had to have one of these coins, and fortunately, many people saved them and the holders they came in. The coin:  The box:  The leaflet which came with the coin:   Festival of Britain 1951 Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_of_Britain Moved to British Coins forum - Sap |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Willieboyd, when you get up to your 50 posts on here, drop me a PM as I've got a lot of spare cases for this coin.
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alganbagerap,
Thank you for your offer but I bought the coin and box as a set.
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Estonia
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I have got it in plastic box. Is the box genuine or was the packing done later?   |
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United States
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mynt123, I think that your plastic holder was produced later. I looked on ebay for the 1951 crowns and found several in red boxes and several in green boxes. I do not know what the box color significance was.
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Turkey
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As much as I am concerned, the colour of the box doesn't signify anything, they just issued them in two different colours back in 1951, hoping for colelctors to buy both issues, which I am sure most people did so.
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Pillar of the Community
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I just watched the 1949 film "Passport to Pimlico",
a comedy about the austerity/rationing period.
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Edited by willieboyd2
05/21/2010 11:50 pm
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New Member
United Kingdom
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I think I'm right in saying that the green box is slightly scarcer than the purple one...
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New Member
United Kingdom
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I looked it up last night, and it's the otherway around - the red is scarcer...
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Pillar of the Community
Turkey
870 Posts |
yes, as much as I know red is a little bit scarer than teh green one.. I have them both.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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there's also a lift off lid, and a slide out box, so I suppose that makes four different boxes...
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Pillar of the Community
Turkey
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Based on design this coin is definitely a hundred times better than the crowns issued after it.
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United States
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What is the coin, complete with box and certificate worth? I have one but can not remember how much I paid for it several years ago.
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05/31/2010 07:58 am
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Not a lot, I'm afraid. £5-10 on ebay UK |
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