Lettering Errors on the 1951 Festival Crown

[Ch2toWm4]

I've received the following question -

"Hello there

I am trying to gain some info on the 1951 Festival of Britain crown, specifically with regards to the lettering on the edge, I have several crowns and one of them has a large gap of almost a compleate letter between INDUSTRIA & FLORET.

I would welcome any help with this matter

Yours Mark"

Any thoughts can be posted here or sent directly to Mr. Greville (mark.greville@virgin.net).

Thanks,

Bill

[Chris Perkins]

I answered this already in the forum, with an image! It's in the Members Only area.

[E Dawson]

Interesting about the edge lettering bit: it seems that the 1935, 1951 and 1953 all had some issues with this, even in proof format. Sometimes the combinations are really quite garbled and "overprinted" and others have malpositioning of the collar bits. I would certainly hate to put much value in minor variations and would advise American buyers to not get too excited over recent edge concerns with those god-awful presidential dollars, the first featuring none other than a positively Halloween version of George Washington.