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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2213259, member: 71234&quot;]Not as far as I know. </p><p><br /></p><p>Although this is an old thread, the story I heard about the different colour boxes was that the burgundy ones were sold in the US and the green boxes were sold in the UK. Or I may have that the wrong way round. I have a vague recollection that there was some sort of exhibition in New York that year and that is where the US ones were sold. </p><p><br /></p><p>An alternative explanation is that one colour box came from Royal Mint orders, the other was for coins sold at the 1951 Festival of Britain, which is a similar sort of idea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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