Target - currency/monetary value over the centuries

[Blythe Bennett <blythe@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>]

Hello,

What resources do you use when you have students ask you how much a pound
was worth in 1840?  I am not looking for currency exchange rates today,
but am looking for resources to let them know what foreign (usually
British) currency is worth in US dollars.  This kind of situation comes up
most often when they read books by British writers or some historical
information and they want to understand how much that was worth now.

I have checked the lmnet archives and didn't find anything there, but I
did find a few things in the Stumpers archive.  Do you have any other
suggestions besides what is listed below? Do you USE any of the sources
below?


John J. McCusker, HOW MUCH IS THAT IN REAL MONEY? A HISTORICAL PRICE INDEX
FOR USE AS A DEFLATOR OF MONEY VALUES ON THE ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES
(Worcester, Mass.:  American Antiquarian Society, 1992).  This also
appeared in the PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, October
1991, 101(2):  297-373.

Julia Prewitt Brown's <Readers' Guide to the Nineteenth Century English
Novel>

Currency Tables, Guinness Book of Money, etc.

English Life in Tudor Times, by Roger Hart, Wayland Publishers, London,
1972.


Thanks for any assistance,

Blythe

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