It has been confirmed by the Royal Mint that the coin remains legal tender, having been remonetized with a value of 25 pence. Condition of these varies, the boxes are usually worn and the condition of the Crowns vary from EF to Unc.

The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition held throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. This particular coin is beautifully packaged in its own small box, an original dark red Royal Mint Festival of Britain 1951. The last commonly circulated Crown would have been the 1901 Crown,as the 1902 Crown was issued to mark King Edward VII's coronation,as he succeeded to the throne in 1901.Since 2010 it has operated as Royal Mint Ltd, a company owned by HM Treasury, under an exclusive contract to supply all coinage for the UK although it also produces medals and coins for other countries. To avoid the need for Aidan to come back with more information, the polished die version was only sold at the British Exhibition in New York, which is one reason they are paricularly hard to find in the UK. I know that there's a reflection-readability self-test, but I believe the same dies on the VIP and proof strikes were used for the proof-like strikes. These Crowns were produced to commemorate the Festival of Britain which took place on the South Bank of the River Thames in London opening on the 4th May 1951 for five months which was literally 100 years after the Great Exhibition in London'€™s Hyde Park from May to October 1851.

To celebrate the centennial of the Great Exhibition of 1851 it was decided that in 1951 there would be a national exhibition to celebrate the achievements of Great Britain. When in London in the early 70's I received a Churchill crown in change in a restaurant in the Queensway area.TransferWise), paypal (оплата по paypal свыше 100 евро только по предварительному соглашению), наличными по почте. The Copper-Nickel crowns are often seen in grades below Uncirculated but their "wear" is generally likely all due to their owners having failed to take good care of them.