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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".
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
George Archer-Shee, naval cadet at the Royal Naval College, Osborne.. George Archer-Shee (6 May 1895 – 31 October 1914) was a Royal Navy cadet whose case of whether he stole a five shilling postal order was decided in the High Court of Justice in 1910.
Snaresbrook Crown Court in London had the largest share of the backlog (3,442) followed by Manchester Minshull Street (2,378) and Maidstone in Kent (2,367).
On Thursday 10 June 1880 at Dewsbury Borough Court, three young women, including one Mary Fitzpatrick, were charged by the Mayor, Alderman John Bates, with obstructing a footpath at 6.30pm on 3 June, in School Road, Daw Green. Fitzpatrick was fined 5 shillings and costs. [14]