a nickname for the old half crown please?

Question

half a crown was 2/6d

Answer 1

Half a doller

Answer 2

The half-crown was nick-named a half-dollar. The half-crown being 2 shillings and 6 pence, where there were 20 shillings to the £1 and 12 pence to a shilling. So 2 shillings and 6 pence was half of 5 shillings which was represented by a crown coin. When I was young (1950's)the crown was not used as money but was issued by the Royal Mint on special occasions as mementos. At some time previous to that, the crown had been referred to as a dollar, perhaps when a US $ was worth 5 shillings. The nick name of half-a-dollar stuck to the half-crown and was widely used right up to the introduction of decimal currency in 1971.

Answer 3

'Barney's mate' is spot on. Half-a-dollar stems from the time the pound exchange rate was four dollars.

The half-crown was slightly bigger than the two shilling piece (sometimes incorrectly called the florin - it's only a florin if it has the word 'florin' on it), and one of the great delights as a child (with a lesser sense of morality of course) was handing over a two shilling coin for something, and being given change of half a crown. The extra tanner could buy a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk later on!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

half a dollar

it dates fro the time when there were 4 dollars to the pound

Answer 6

Half Crown what was that.

Answer 7

Long time ago it was called a half dollar.

Answer 8

Half a dollar, or sometimes, "two an' a bit".

Answer 9

Two and six

Answer 10

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