Crown

A former coin in the United Kingdom equal in value to five shillings, or 1/4 of one British pound. The last crown was minted in 1965. Following decimalization in 1971, a 25-pence coin was minted to replace the crown. Informally, crowns were called dollars, recalling the time when one pound was worth four U.S. dollars.

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To perform the finish crown, you'll need a small electric hand drill, some kind of a crowning ball, and a mild abrasive paste.

For larger or smaller calibers than those listed, just be sure the crowning ball is at least 0.030 inch larger than the bore being crowned.

Finish-crowning the rifle barrel: the "major" recessed or concave barrel crown is only the beginning of the job. For good accuracy, the rifle or pistol barrel also requires "finish" crowning as a necessary part of the overall muzzle finish

During the Marian Year 1954, Pope Pius XII, in his encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam, encouraged the practice of May crownings and proclaimed the last day of May as the Feast of the Queenship of Mary.

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