crown gold

noun

: gold eleven-twelfths fine (see fine entry 3 sense 1b) that was used in the minting of the crown of the rose from 1526 and adopted in 1634 as the standard for other English gold coins

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1530, in the meaning defined above

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