What is "half-crown"

Usage examples of "half-crown".

You paid ninepence for a sixpenny publication, and fifteen-pence for a shilling one, and a half-crown, and sometimes three shillings, for a two-shilling volume.

He further told us he had seen a priest of the Roman Catholic Church put a half-crown into the mouth of a corpse at Portobello, to represent, we presume, the obolus exacted by Charon for ferrying the shades of the buried dead across the under-world rivers.

The chance of injuring Rodman was more to him than several half-crowns.

All in all, theirs was as handsome a table as any of the dozen round about, and, try as he might, Barnacle could not see a single waistcoat that rivalled in splendour his own mustard-pot garment with its buttons like gold half-crowns.

Here Lord Grimthorpe inserted a circular window, the design being such as a child might make who was given a sheet of cardboard with a large circle drawn on it, which he was requested to cover symmetrically with a number of half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences.

As he shuffles downstairs, Mr. Snagsby, lying in wait for him, puts a half-crown in his hand.

And Mr. Snagsby again relates his experience, again suppressing the half-crown fact.

Mario, a super-brigand of South America, could be purchased at any bookstall for three half-crowns.

Who the hell is he going to think I am if I don't give him four half-crowns -James Bond ?

I held four half-crowns extended towards him while he spent five minutes trying to pry apart two ten-shilling notes that were only one.

In particular, I have missed three half-crowns at three different times.

Fitzsimons's, and my cracked toilet glass not much bigger than a half-crown, yet I was used to this sort of ways in Irish houses, and still thought myself in that of a man of fashion.