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Old money at court vanished (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

extinct

'vanished' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'old money at court' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'ex'.
'money' becomes 'tin' (I've seen this before**).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'ex'+'tin'+'ct'='EXTINCT'

(Other definitions for extinct that I've seen before include "killed off completely" , "Dead (as a dodo?)" , "Of volcano, no longer active" , "never to be seen again" , "Defunct" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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