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Definition of half-crown in English: half-crown(also half a crown) noun A former British coin and monetary unit equal to two shillings and sixpence (121/2p). Example sentencesExamples - Several decades later, Thornborough gave Whitacre a half-crown in exchange for a grain of rye that was to be doubled in number each week for a year.
- I was not consulted about the abolition of the crown, or the half-crown.
- Canon McHugh, presented each of us with a half-crown, the equivalent of twenty-five pence in today's currency, which at that time was indeed a princely sum.
- A gilded silver twopence might well pass for a gold half-crown to the unwary.
- Those savings would be made up of the sovereigns, florins, half-crowns, and the smaller silver he received over the years for his smithy work.
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