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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 1959144, member: 42034&quot;]Very interesting and [IMO] insightful post.&nbsp; Most 19th century British crowns were quite circulated and it&#039;s a little tough to find a nice unc one --well tougher than finding an unc Morgan at least.&nbsp; Yet I cannot imagine people wanting to carry these big things around.&nbsp; I&#039;d imagine that a small little 1/2 soverign at 10 shillings was a lot easier to use than a big huge 5 shilling silver crown.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that when Napoleon III was forced to leave France [1870] he stopped at a private house his final day in France.&nbsp; He paid for his lodgings with a pair of 5 franc gold pieces (like US gold dollars in size), not with a pair of 25 gram, 5 franc silver crowns.</p><p><br /></p><p>So why did they make them (the crowns)?&nbsp; They&#039;re huge in size.&nbsp; Was it one or two guys that decided to circulate them all?&nbsp; I&#039;ve never read of one being spent in comparary literature.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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