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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sakata, post: 2952048, member: 23778&quot;]A double florin was four shillings (5 to the pound) and a crown was five shillings (4 to the pound).&nbsp; Those were the official names, not just terms used to describe the coins.&nbsp; As a child I would get a crown as my weekly pocket money, although by then the crown coin was no longer minted for circulated and I actually received two half crowns.&nbsp; The slang term for five shillings (or crown) was a dollar and I assumed it was based on the time when the conversion rate was four dollars to a pound and when a crown coin and a dollar coin were about the same size.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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