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Message:: [QUOTE="7Jags, post: 13166929, member: 78719"]Yes, interesting story: as the "New Coinage" was to begin in the silver coins, 3d through crown, designs were submitted chiefly by Kruger-Gray and Derwent Wood submitted designs (that were ultimately executed by Humphrey Paget as I understand it). There were some other less seriously considered designs, but I digress. So the K-G and DW pieces were struck up by the Royal Mint with the designs all of the reverses, most with the opposite side usually featuring the word "MODEL", though a few were blank. They are quite scarce to actually rare and discussed in ESC, including the latest two versions by Bull.Anyway, Wood died and so the Royal Mint struck up a complete set of the six designs and these were cased in a box similar to those eventually used for the 1927 six coin proof set but done in black as possibly a memorial to the designer. It was K-G whose designs were ultimately accepted. The other design considered has very rare designs - quite ugly - that featured by recollection anagrams or dots (I could be wrong on this latter).[/QUOTE]