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The legal tender value of the crown remained as five shillings from 1544 to 1965. However, for most of this period there was no denominational designation or "face value" mark of value displayed on the coin. From 1927 to 1939, the word "CROWN" appears, and from 1951 to 1960 this was changed to "FIVE SHILLINGS".
The first English silver crown, that of Edward VI (fine silver, 41mm, 30.78 g, 9h; third period) The crown, originally known as the "crown of the double rose", was an English coin introduced as part of King Henry VIII's monetary reform of 1526, with a value of 1 ⁄ 4 of one pound, or five shillings, or 60 pence.
5/— (5 shillings, or ¼ £NZ) Mass: 28.27 g: Diameter: 38.61 mm ... The Waitangi crown is a commemorative crown coin struck in 1935 by the British Royal Mint for ...
Crown: 5/-£0.25: 1551–1965. Sometimes known as "a dollar" – from the 1940s when the exchange rate was four USD to the GBP. Originally in gold until 1662 and in silver from 1551. Quarter guinea: 5/3: £0.2625: 1718, 1762. Five shillings and eightpence: 5/8: £0.284: 1644-1645 Minted under Charles I during the civil war at Scarborough ...
A 1933 UK shilling 1956 Elizabeth II UK shilling showing English and Scottish reverses. The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s ...
The English fifty shilling coin, worth 50/-, was only ever minted once, in the year 1656. It was a milled gold coin weighing 22.7 g (0.73 ozt) and with a diameter of 30 mm (1.2 in). Only eleven examples are known to survive.
In 1935, the Waitangi crown, of a previously nonexistent five-shilling denomination, was produced in extremely limited numbers and sold to collectors, without entering circulation. With the Waitangi crown's release largely regarded as a failure, [ 2 ] the 1940 Centennial half-crown was produced in far larger quantities and entered circulation ...
The British shilling, abbreviated "1s" or "1/-", was a unit of currency and a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 20 of one pound, or twelve pence.It was first minted in the reign of Henry VII as the testoon, and became known as the shilling, from the Old English scilling, [1] sometime in the mid-16th century.