(slang, obsolete) A coin worth half a crown (two shilling and sixpence; 2s 6d).
"And would you believe it," he added, with a sudden change of attitude, "I've done fifty-two of those Dam' little tracts, and what d'you reckon I get for them? Half a crown apiece - a miserable half bull," he said, thrusting the insignif…
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