Convert 10 000 crown to dollar?

Answer 1

I'm sure exactly what you mean by "crown" ... there are several countries that use a currency where the name translates to "crown". You can convert between any current currency by going to Google and searching for "1 in USD".

For example, if you wanted to convert from Pounds Sterling (UK) to dollars, you'd put in "1 GBP in USD". You do need to know the ISO code for the currency, though.

It may be one of these:

CZK (Czech koruna)
DKK (Danish krone)
ISK (Icelandic krona)
NOK (Norwegian krone)
SEK (Swedish krona)

However, there was also a British coin called a "crown". Its value has varied over time; it was originally five shillings (one quarter of a Pound), but more recently it has been revised to a face value of 5 GBP (for several decades they've been mainly commemorative issues, selling for considerably more than face value and not actually used as currency anyway, so the face value is largely immaterial). If you're reading some book set in historical Britain and are trying to work out how much money 10,000 crowns is, what was probably meant was the 5 shilling coin, so it would be 2500 Pounds Sterling. It's all but impossible to convert from (some time in the past) Pounds to (current) dollars with any kind of precision, so just take it on faith that 2500 Pounds anytime prior to about the middle of the 20th century is a lot of money (for example, at the time Isaac newton held the post of Master of the Mint ... a high government office ... it brought him an income of about 1500 Pounds Sterling per year, and this was quite a comfortable income).