 An unknown quantity of unnumbered red boxes (sometimes reported to be between 300 and 500) were issued in the UK, while 1000 numbered black boxed sets were assembled and issued in the United States by the Dutch East India Trading Co.These US sets originally sold for $79.00 and included a numbered certificate and an order blank for additional sets.A new "Mono Box", containing remastered monoural versions of the Beatles' core albums (with the exception of Yellow Submarine album) plus "Mono Masters" compilation, was released on 9 September 2009 along with "Stereo Box" and new stereo reissues of the individual albums, including the first four albums given their stereo debuts on CD.