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The half crown was a denomination of British money worth half of a crown, equivalent to two and a half shillings ( 30 pennies ), or one-eighth of a pound.
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One of his jobs was to do domestic work at a lodgings for half a crown a day.
He said that the worst possible situation is one in which the commoners have half a nation's property, with crown and nobility holding the other half — a circumstance fraught with instability and violence.
In the years just prior to decimalisation, the circulating British coins were the half crown ( 2 / 6 ), two shillings or florin ( 2 /-), shilling ( 1 /-), sixpence ( 6d ), threepence ( 3d ), penny ( 1d ) and halfpenny ( ½d ).
The Nuremberg powder, which was made by hand, retailed in London for £ 5 12s per pound and he eventually reduced the price to half a crown, or about 1 / 40th.
Thus, the pharaohs were known as the rulers of the Two Kingdoms ( alternatively: Two Lands ), and wore the pschent, a double crown, each half representing sovereignty of one of the kingdoms.
Indeed, in England the word " dollar " was in use for the Thaler for 200 years before the issue of the United States dollar, and until the half crown ceased to be used following decimalisation in 1971, the term " half a dollar " could be heard for " half a crown ".
Should Orleans fall, it would effectively make the recovery of the northern half of France all but impossible, and prove fatal to the Dauphin Charles's bid for the crown.
It was then occupied by a farmer HARRIS, who lodged and boarded me for half a guinea a week and kept my horse for half a crown a week.
Two goals by Nunes and another one by Adílio ( all during first half ) along with a brilliant performance by Zico were more than enough to crown Flamengo the first Brazilian World Champions club since Pelé's Santos, shutting out Liverpool 3 – 0.
Despite the coin's novel shape, there was initial confusion amongst some members of the public, with the coin being mistaken for both the old half crown and the new ten pence piece.
The £ 5 coin has the same dimensions as the crown, having a mass of one ounce ( 28. 28 grams ) and having a diameter of one and a half inches ,( 38. 61 millimetres ).
The two sun wheel gears are aligned on the same axis as the crown wheel gear, and drive the axle half shafts connected to the vehicle's driven wheels.
The reign of Edward VI though short ( 1547 – 1553 ) was numismatically important for seeing the introduction of new denominations — the silver crown, half crown, shilling, Sixpence, and Threepence — which were to survive until 1971, and which were a reflection of the increasing wealth of the country.
In the 1890s the Hokianga County Council imposed a tax of 2 / 6d ( half crown ) on each dog in the district.
A " Tour de l ' horloge ," which two or three years after it was first issued sold for half a crown, in May 1903 fetched f70.
Paret recaptured the crown a half year later in a split-decision over Griffith.
It was named after the laurel that the king is portrayed as wearing on his head, but it is considerably poorer in both quality and style than both the half sovereign and the double crown which preceded it.
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There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.
That was true, but only half the truth.
His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.
Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.
The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.
At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.
The gradient was about one half of a millidegree at 4.2 Af but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the **yl point.
Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.
Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.
Oyster salt roast -- oysters on the half shell, cooked on a bed of coarse salt that kept them hot when served -- was a standby at Manning's.
One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.
The southern half, however, on account of its underbracing, was considered by boat owners a menace to navigation.
By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.
He found, as he had suspected, a general consensus that perhaps over half of the present functionally designed course was not really functional for these students.
The huge backlog of demand which was evident in the first decade and a half after the War was fed by liquid assets accumulated by the public during the War, and even more so by the easier and easier credit in the consumer loan and home loan fields.
Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.
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The largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism, to which adheres about half the population.
Conservative Judaism enjoyed rapid growth in the first half of the 20th century, becoming the largest American Jewish denomination.
In cases where posting exactly half the big blind is impractical due to the big blind being some odd-valued denomination, the small blind is rounded down to the nearest practical value.
This, 240 stamps per sheet, configuration continued with all British postage stamps issued until 1971 when decimal currency was introduced when the sheet size was changed to 200, ( 20 rows of 10 stamps ) making the lowest value denomination ( half penny ) one pound per sheet.
The denomination was the Stavraton issued in 1, a half, an eighth and a 16th of its value.
In Germany and other Western countries, where minimum wages exist for servers and where tipping is not culturally entrenched, most tips take the form of rounding up to the nearest whole or half denomination of currency when the server is cashing a party out at their table.
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest denomination with over 1. 1 billion members, over half of all Christians worldwide, making it the largest denomination for any religion worldwide ( although the church does not view itself as a denomination, but as the original pre-denominational church ).
Since the Coinage Act of 1792 required only that the cent and half cent display their denomination, Draped Bust dimes were minted with no indication of their value.
Most U. S. vending machines do not accept half dollars, nor do payphones, which further curtails its circulation ; however, most sleight of hand magicians specializing in coin magic around the world prefer the half dollar for its size and weight, and it is the most common denomination used for U. S. commemorative coins.
Because of this the lowest mintage for any denomination ( cent through half dollar ) determines the total number of complete sets that can exist.
Pennsylvania remains the hub of the denomination, with nearly half its congregations and a majority of its members.
Indiana remains the geographic center of the denomination, with nearly half of its members.
There exist significant disagreements in the interpretation of Jewish law between all Jewish groups, even different groups within the same denomination ( for instance, there are half a dozen large, different Orthodox Jewish rabbinical groups, none of which accepts the rulings of the other as necessarily correct or authoritative.
Scinde Dawks as they were known, were of the denomination of half Anne.
The stamp was issued to fulfill a need for a reduced rate, 2-Cent denomination for newspaper, magazine, and local deliveries ; and was often used to " make up " higher rates, or split in half to make up lower ones ( a 1-Cent stamp ) due to shortages at the local post office.
As a British colony, the predominant Christian denomination was the Church of England, but one-tenth of all the convicts who came to Australia on the First Fleet were Catholic, and at least half of them were born in Ireland.
The RCUS ' constituency composed slightly over half of the membership of the new denomination in 1934.
Membership in the denomination declined by over one half and half of the ministers left the PRC during this period.
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