What does the word 'Crowns' mean in the following text?

“The vast majority of contaminated sites have been cleaned up or are being cleaned up at the present time - 1,4 billion crowns have already been invested in clean-up work and we expect that another 240 million will be invested between now and 2012 when the sanitation project should be concluded. So the clean-up operation should end eleven years after the last Soviet soldier left the Czech Republic.”

What does the word 'Crowns' mean in the following text?
The crown is the currency of the Czech Republic.


As of current, 1 U.S. dollar = 18.5270959 Czech crowns (koruny)
Reply:A crown was a unit of British money, equal to five shillings. But that was old money and is no longer used now. It is also a unit of Czech currency and given the dates in this paragraph, and the fact that the koruna (pronounced crown) is still in use, that is likely the currency referred to by the writer.
Reply:OLD money from great brittan.





The Crown, originally known as the "crown of the double rose", was an English coin introduced as part of King Henry VIII's monetary reform of 1526.
Reply:UK currency is pounds.





Czech Republic currency is 'koruna', which translates to 'crowns'.
Reply:It sounds like a unit of currency-- probably British, but not sure.
Reply:Money from Great Britain

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