Crown

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Crown may refer to:

Arts

• Crown (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, and an enemy of Spider-Man

Currency

• Crown (Australian coin), the Australian version of the British Crown
• Crown (British coin), a heavy silver coin, parallel in size and weight to the United States silver dollar
• Crown (currency), a monetary unit used in the countries of Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the territories of Faroe Islands and Greenland
• Crown (English coin), originally known as the "crown of the double rose", an English gold coin introduced as part of King Henry VIII's monetary reform of 1526 with the value of five shillings; later a silver coin of the same value
• Estonian kroon, the official currency of Estonia for two periods in history: 1928–1940 and 1992–2011
• Hungarian korona, the replacement currency of the Austro-Hungarian Krone/korona amongst the boundaries of the newly created post-World War I Hungary
• Koruna (disambiguation)
• Krona (disambiguation)
• Krone (disambiguation)

Dentistry

• Crown (dentistry), a dental treatment
• Crown (tooth), a portion of a tooth

Motor vehicles

• Crown (automobile), an automobile built in Detroit, MI, in 1905
• Ford Crown Victoria
• Ford LTD Crown Victoria
• Toyota Crown, an automobile built for the Japanese and other select Asian markets

Music and audio

• Crowns (band), an English folk punk band
• "The Crown", a single by Gary Byrd and the GB Experience
• The Crown (band), a Swedish death/thrash band
• "Crown" (song), a song by Jay-Z

Places

• Crown, Inverness (from the Scottish Gaelic: Crùn), an area situated beside the city centre of Inverness, the capital city of the Scottish Highlands
• Crown Wetlands, Cayman Islands
• The Crown (mountain), a mountain in the Karakoram of China

Science

• Crown (anatomy), the top of the head
• Crown (botany), the branching leaf-bearing portion of a tree
• Crown graph in graph theory
• Crown group in phylogenetics
• Crown ether in chemistry

Symbols of monarchy or rank

• Crown (headgear), often an emblem of the monarchy, a monarch's government, or items endorsed by it
• An alternate means to refer to a monarch
• The Crown, the legal embodiment of Executive Government in Commonwealth countries
• Crown, a military decoration in the ancient Roman Republic, including:
  • Grass crown, awarded for saving a city in battle
  • Civic crown, awarded for saving a citizen in battle
  • Camp crown, awarded for being the first to penetrate the enemy's camp
  • Mural crown, awarded for being the first to scale the walls of an enemy city
  • Naval crown, awarded for being the first to board an enemy ship

Other uses

• Crown (heraldry), ceremonial headgear, often used in a symbolic way only
• HMS Crown, the name of various Royal Navy ships
• Crown Prosecutor, the title commonly given, in Commonwealth jurisdictions, to the state prosecutor
• Crown, the top or hinge of a bell (instrument)
• Crown, the topmost part of a hat
• Crown Publishing Group
• Crowns brand cigarettes, produced by Commonwealth Brands
• Crown Lager, an Australian beer