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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jgenn, post: 4302227, member: 78525&quot;]To me, crown-like coins need have similar characteristics to the silver English crown from the 16th-17th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:&nbsp; &quot;The silver crown was one of a number of European <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_coin" rel="nofollow">silver coins</a> which first appeared in the 16th century, all of which were of a similar diameter (about 38 millimetres) and weight (approximately one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce" rel="nofollow">ounce</a>)[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" rel="nofollow">troy?</a></i>], so were more or less interchangeable in international trade.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>and</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_(English_coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_(English_coin)" rel="nofollow">English silver crown</a>, one of many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_coin" rel="nofollow">silver coins</a> that appeared in various countries from the 16th century onwards, the most famous example perhaps being the famous Spanish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar" rel="nofollow">pieces of eight</a>, all of which were of a similar size and weight (approx 38mm diameter and containing approx 25 grams of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_silver" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_silver" rel="nofollow">fine silver</a>) and thus interchangeable in international trade.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly an international merchant would not consider the OP&#039;s coin to be interchangeable with English crowns or 8 reales.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today&#039;s numismatic definition of &quot;crown&quot; may be quite different from that of the international merchant of previous centuries, however.&nbsp; I have included two coins in <a href="http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/WCM/CoinCustomSetView.aspx?s=22490" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/WCM/CoinCustomSetView.aspx?s=22490" rel="nofollow">my world crown collection</a> that fall short of this standard, a debased Colombian 8 reales and an Ottoman yuzluk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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