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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pnightingale, post: 1376433, member: 32585&quot;]I&#039;m confused. Having tried to find the answer via Google search and the Royal Mint website I&#039;m even more confused. So I thought I&#039;d seek the advice of the sage folks over at CoinTalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>I own a few 1951 Festival of Britain crowns and have noticed the cases come in different colors. Why is this? </p><p><br /></p><p>Last week I bought a 1984 UK proof set in a very classy looking red leather case. When trying to get an approximate value I wasn&#039;t able to find a single example in such a case, just &quot;blue leatherette&quot; ones. Is the difference in color just a cheap marketing gimmick by the Royal Mint syhsters - &quot;OWN THE SUPER DELUXE ELITE LIMITED EDITION!!!&quot; - or does it signify the silver content of the set?</p><p><br /></p><p>Any help would be gratefully appreciated and my thanks is tendered in anticipation.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside note, I have to say I was really dismayed at the low qualiity of the Royal Mint&#039;s website. It has such a &quot;low rent&quot; feel to it. 90% of the content is devoted to hustling cheap, contrived commeroratives the other 10% was a mixture of dead links or pages completely empty of content.&nbsp; It could easily be confused with the site of one of the private mints. I mean, come on guys - this is the ROYAL MINT we&#039;re talking about, a name going back generations, the producers of the most consistently beautiful coinage in the world, not the ordering department of a TV coin show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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