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 :hail:
