| By-the-bye, did your uncle ever ask what you did with that half-crown? |
| His silver coins were the crown, half-crown, shilling, and so on, all regularly and beautifully struck on the new mill that was then established at London's Tower Mint. |
| Londonderry actually managed to make Ribbentrop look good, snatching back the over-generous half-crown tip that he gave to a golf caddie and replacing it with a shilling. |
| After spending their last half-crown getting their picture taken in a photo booth, they called an uncle who lived in London who put them on a train straight back to Glasgow. |
| Wanting to see Olivier's Macbeth a second and third time in that same 1955 season, I queued for an afternoon for the few remaining, half-crown standing places. |
| Canon McHugh, presented each of us with a half-crown, the equivalent of twenty-five pence in today's currency, which at that time was indeed a princely sum. |
