The Crown and the Practice (SEVP-VAL-002), version 0.3, is a valuation dossier by Lee Sharks, deposited by the Crimson Hexagonal Archive on 30 September 2026 as the second applied valuation under the Semantic Economy Valuation Protocol (SEVP-01). Its object is Answer Engine Optimization as a public entity, valued where machine composition answers under the contested title 'King of AEO'. In that contest of August and September 2026, a fabricated coronation, inexpensive press releases syndicated on newspaper-branded networks, a page in encyclopedic form and a service offer founded on the title within three days preceded Google AI Overview answers naming James Dooley the title's holder. The dossier reads three seated compositions citation by citation. It finds every sentence that confers the title carried by the construction's own documents, and every citation of the other practitioners and of the observer who documented the fabrication routed into the frame, the contender list and the definition of the discipline. None of the practitioners' distinguishing methods is carried at any address. A press-release page that declares itself paid placement is composed as media backing, and the dossier names the resulting disclosure asymmetry. It applies the protocol's value events and Value Field, the ontological capital and shear ledger of Ontological Economy, the retention-without-standing form of Monetary Dark Matter and the classification of predatory compression, extended by declaration from monetary to compositional closure. It issues a Value Portrait and coverage ratios, no monetary total, and states what it has not observed and what would revise it. Its evidence ledger is appended.