J P | June 21, 2009
In an article in a National Geographic Magazine:
The Real Price of Gold
By Brook Larmer
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text/3
For all of its allure, gold’s human and environmental toll has never been so steep. Part of the challenge, as well as the fascination, is that there is so little of it. In all of history, only 161,000 tons of gold have [...]
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J P | August 6, 2008
This post concerns the value of medieval coins, specifically what equivalant amount of modern money they would have been worth at their time.
I had found a site that tells the relative worth of current coins in the past, but it only went back to the 1900s, so I have had to do my own research [...]
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Tags: coin, farthing, feudal, gold, medieval, middle ages, pence, penny, pound, shilling, silver, value, wages, worth
