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There is also a website for historical currency conversion: www.oanda.com/FXhistory. I have used it several times, but never further back than the early modern period. Marilyn H. Pettit, Ph.D. Director, Columbia University Archives and Columbiana Library 210 Low Memorial Library MC 4316 535 W. 116th St New York, NY 10027 Tel. 212.854.1331 FAX 212.854.7320 mhp74@columbia.edu --On Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:53 PM -0400 H-SHEAR Editor Peter Knupfer <repub@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:24:03 -0400 > From: gassan@history.umass.edu > Subject: Re: currency conversions > > You've probably already gotten emails on this, but the American > Antiquarian Society has a really handy little pamphlet, "How Much is > this in Real Money?" they sell from their Web site. An economic > historian did some very nice calculations of what currencies of a given > year from the 1660s to the 1860s were and how much they might, > approximately, be worth in late-1990s dollars. The pamphlet talks about > a number of currencies from colonial and into the 19th century; it'd be > a useful adjunct to the information you've collected below. > > cheers, > > Richard Gassan Marilyn H. Pettit, Ph.D. Director, Columbia University Archives and Columbiana Library 210 Low Memorial Library MC 4316 535 W. 116th St New York, NY 10027 Tel. 212.854.1331 FAX 212.854.7320 mhp74@columbia.edu
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