The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SOVEREIGN , but the solution may also be GUINEA which is one of the most recent solution (2000 in LA Times).
Former British coin crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SOVEREIGN | 33 % | 9 |
| GROAT | 33 % | 5 |
| GUINEA | 33 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Former British coin
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- shilling
- penny
- guinea
- sovereign
- farthing
- twopence
- halfpenny
- fourpence
- threepence
- crown
- florin
- crowning
Crossword Answer definitions
SOVEREIGN noun- A monarch; the ruler of a country.
- One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33⅓ standard bottles.
- Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
- A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- To rule over as a sovereign.
- Exercising power of rule.
- Exceptional in quality.
- Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
- Having supreme, ultimate power.
- Princely; royal.
- Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SOVEREIGN
More clues leading to the result GROAT
- Fourpence
- Oat bit
- Former Pirate Dick ___
- Grain fragment
- Old fourpenny coin
- Old fourpence coin
- Old English fourpence.
- Former English silver fourpence.
- Pirate shortstop.
- Former British coin.