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I was hoping, and expecting, it to sell for quite a bit more than that.......although I guess I shouldn't complain as bought it on eBay about 20 years ago for £11, before variety was well known.

Hello everyone, I am looking for more information on the different types of proofs which were made for the 1960 British Exhibition Crown. I would very much appreciate some confirmations from the experts in the forum. My current understanding is the following: The 80ies book on Crowns by Davies mentions three proofs: prooflike, vip proofs and even silver ones The Royal Mint Report from that year makes no mention of any of that Regarding the silver ones, the Royal Mint replied to my enquiry that "if it's not in the report it doesn't exist" I could not find sales for the silver version. We have however VIP proofs which are not so infrequently sold One sale on HA mentions proofs "patinated in Silver" for VIP version (Auction #3098 / Lot #33907) No 1960 crowns were minted at the US exhibition (clearly stated in the Royal Mint report), they only minted the medals So all in all: Do Silver proofs exist or is the book by Davis mistaken? Weren't "prooflike" ones already made from polished dies? So what are VIP ones.. super duper polished dies? Are the VIP proofs made by "specially polished dies" or were they plated in silver? In real life, are proof like vs vip ones visibly different? How so? Is it just the cameo effect? Where does the "common knowledge" of the VIP proofs made from polished dies even come from? Are the 30-50 vip vs 70000 prooflike figures validated by any reference/document? And what about the Cameo/UltraCameo/VIP distinction -- is that just a split of the otherwise equal VIP population? Thank you in advance for any info you will be able to share on this matter!

Look what I found in a rummage bin in york this friday. I am well off a full set but its a start . sorry about the poor scan folks

I had to stitch the topic together with multiple messages because of the current tech issues with the forum. Unfortunately I'm not able to order the extracts from the Royal Mint properly (the two pieces about the Exhibition are inverted). By the way, here's a similar discussion I started for completeness sake: https://goccf.com/t/479888 The interesting fact that emerged from that discussion is that the Davies book seems to suggest to "ping test" the Crowns to find the silver specimens. Kind of difficult when most of the VIPs are now probably slabbed. Thanks everyone!

These are the relevant extracts from the Royal Mint Annual Report of 1960.

Thats the one i bought Jerry, althogh would of paid more.