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crown gold

noun

Definition of crown gold

: 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

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circa 1530, in the meaning defined above

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