1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CROWN IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX - Stunning condition and worth so much more with it's box. Coins for Collectors and The Great British Coin Hunt.

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The Festival of Britain emblem – the Festival Star – designed by Abram Games, from the cover of the South Bank Exhibition Guide, 1951

Telecinema. ( Architect: Wells Coates. Programme and Presentation: J. D. Ralph and R. J. Spottiswoode.) a b ae-pro.com. "Kinross, R., "The Royal Festival hall has regained the thoroughly English lettering of its origins in the Festival of Britain – on one side only", Eye, No.65". Eyemagazine.com . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Casey, Andrew. "Ceramics at the Festival of Britain 1951: Selection and Objection." Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850-the Present 25 (2001): 74–86.

Obverse

Lettering and type design featured prominently in the graphic style of the Festival and was overseen by a typography panel including the lettering historian Nicolete Gray. [40] A typeface for the Festival, Festival Titling, [41] was specially commissioned and designed by Philip Boydell. It was based on condensed sans-serif capitals and had a three-dimensional form making it suitable for use in exhibition display typography. [42] It has been said to bear "a vague resemblance to bunting". [43] The lettering on the Royal Festival Hall and the temporary Festival building on the South Bank was a bold, sloping slab serif letter form, determined by Gray and her colleagues, including Charles Hasler and Gordon Cullen, [40] illustrated in Gray's Lettering on Buildings (1960) and derived in part from typefaces used in the early 19th century. [44] It has been described as a "turn to a jauntier and more decorative visual language" that was "part of a wider move towards the appreciation of vernacular arts and the peculiarities of English culture". [45] The lettering in the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion was designed by John Brinkley. [46] [47] a b "The Festival of Britain, 1951', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011". Sculpture.gla.ac.uk. 31 December 1949 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. The Festival was a national celebration that reached millions of visitors across the UK and had several exhibitions located throughout the region, including the South Bank display in London all the way to the York Art Festival. The Festival was highly popular in every part of Britain. Richard Weight estimates that of the national population of 49 million, about half participated. [77] The Festival largely ignored foreign tourists, with most of the visitors from the Continent being expatriate Britons. [78] a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Cox, Ian, The South Bank Exhibition: A guide to the story it tells, H.M.S.O., 1951

Much of London lay in ruins, and models of redevelopment were needed. The Festival was an attempt to give Britons a feeling of recovery and progress and to promote better-quality design in the rebuilding of British towns and cities. [11] The Festival of Britain described itself as "one united act of national reassessment, and one corporate reaffirmation of faith in the nation's future." [8] Gerald Barry, the Festival Director, described it as "a tonic to the nation". [11] Benedetto Pistrucci was a distinguished Italian Gem-engraver, medallist and coin-engraver who became Chief-medallist at the Royal Mint in England. Allen, Cecil J (1974). Titled Trains of the Western. Shepperton: Ian Allan. pp.21–23. ISBN 07110-0513-3. Wilton, Iain. "'A galaxy of sporting events': sport's role and significance in the Festival of Britain, 1951." Sport in History 36#4 (2016): 459–476. a b c d "Sarah Easen, Film and the Festival of Britain 1951, British Universities and Video Council". Bufvc.ac.uk . Retrieved 13 December 2011.

Variations

As we alluded to earlier, there were a couple of different versions of the 1951 Festival of Britain crown released, each with varying mintage figures and rarities. The obverse design of the George VI 1951 Festival of Britain crown coin shows the left facing bare head portrait of King George VI surrounded by the inscription: GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OHM:REX F:D: FIVE SHILLINGS. The selection of Trowell, a Nottinghamshire village in the middle of England, as the Festival Village [64] The Exhibition comprised the Upstream Circuit: "The Land", the Dome of Discovery, the Downstream Circuit: "The People", and other displays. [8] Upstream Circuit: "The Land" [ edit ] Power and Production pavilion interior

The Festival of Britain". Museum of London. 31 August 2001. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Featherstone, Simon (2009). Featherstone, S., Englishness: Twentieth Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity , 2009, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748623655 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Banham, Mary and Hillier, Bevis, A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951 (Thames & Hudson, 1976). ISBN 0-500-27079-1 Seaside. ( Architects and Designers: Eric Brown and Peter Chamberlain. Theme Convener. A. Hippisley Coxe.) Berry, W.T., Johnson, A.F., and Jaspert, W.P., The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces, London: Blandford Press, 1963

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The architecture and display of the South Bank Exhibition were planned by the Festival Office's Exhibition Presentation Panel, whose members were: [8]

Treasury Historical Memorandum No.2". Archive.treasury.gov.uk. 8 March 1951. Archived from the original on 25 November 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Weight, Richard. Patriots: National Identity in Britain, 1940–2000 (London: Pan Macmillan, 2013), pp 193–208. a b Powers, Alan (29 June 2011). "Powers, A., "Sixty years on from the Festival of Britain", Architectural Review, 22 June 2011". Architectural-review.com . Retrieved 13 December 2011.a b c d e f " "Circa 1951: Presenting Science to the British Public", Robert Anderson, Oregon State University". Osulibrary.oregonstate.edu. Archived from the original on 6 July 2008 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. The People of Britain. ( Architect: H. T. Cadbury-Brown. Theme Convener: Jacquetta Hawkes. Display Design: James Gardner.) Henry Grant. "The Skylon in construction". Museum of London. Archived from the original (photo) on 30 July 2013. Hoon, Will. The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Living Legacy (Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996).