Half a crown
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The phrase "half a crown" was used before currency decimalisation in the United Kingdom to express the value of two shillings and sixpence as in, for example, "That will cost you half a crown."[1] The phrases "half a crown" and "two and six" were commonly used in preference to the more formal "two shillings and sixpence". The half crown coin was worth half a crown.
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- ^ [1964] (1972) in H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler: The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Fifth Edition, Oxford University Press.
