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John J. McCusker (Author)

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Hardcover: 367 pages
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr; 1St Edition edition (June 1978)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807812846
ISBN-13: 978-0807812846

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In this must-have reference book for the economic historian, McCusker compiles an impressive amount of information on the major European currencies, units of account and relative values, and presents it a clear and straightforward fashion. Conversion tables, market values and stock exchange quotes make it extremely easy to obtain the information as needed. If a number or a series is all you want, you can go in and out of this book in seconds, taking with you everything you need. In my personal experience, I managed to convert prices in florins per Dutch pound to pence per British pound between 1690 and 1720 in a matter of minutes (and it involves six different weight, monetary and accounting conversions!). But the masterful accounts that accompany each chapter make it worth spending much more time on it.

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The purpose of this handbook is to provide sufficient information of a technical and statistical nature to allow the reader to convert a sum stated in one money into its equivalent in another money. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
schellingen banco, metallic rate, piastre gourde, sola bills, intercolonial exchange, currency equaled, specie export point, sterling equaled, month arbitrarily, plata antigua, overvalued coin, wampum value, sous tournois, exchange fluctuated, continental colonies, pence sterling, old tenor, exchange rate quotations, proclamation money, protested bills, colonial currency, colonial bills, annual average figures, livres tournois, sterling bills

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New York, May June July Aug, Year Jan, New Jersey, Board of Trade, New England, West Indies, South Carolina, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Leeward Islands, Public Record Office, Great Britain, John Reynell, House of Lords, West Indian, Currency of the American Colonies, North America, History of Currency, William Douglass, Nova Scotia, The British Caribbean Colonies, Library of Congress, Comparative Rates of Exchange, Galloway Correspondence

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