What is "kronen"

Usage examples of "kronen".

Hungary still honored and used the Austrian Empire's kronen, gulden and kreuzers, but the nation was introducing its own coinage of koronas, forints and fillérs, so the newcomers—and the Hungarians themselves—endured some confusion until they learned to carry the two moneys in separate pockets or purses, and to do quick calculations back and forth between them.

The Kronen had made a tidy fortune for Saarinen by illegally transporting food and small machinery to Russia and its satellite states.

The profession is so profitable that these proud parents wish to lavish thousands of kronen on the wedding.

Give me twenty kronen for the chicken and I'll let you have the cow for just two copper kreuzers.

The sum in dispute was the comparatively paltry one of 260 Kronen, but when the Jew was taken in a dying condition to the hospital he made a statement which was so curious that the Chief of Police in Cracow sent it on to Vienna and Vienna sent it to Berne and Berne scratched its chin thoughtfully and sent it forward to Paris, where it was distributed to Rio de Janeiro, New York, and London.