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One way to work this out would be to find out the price in 1950 of gold/silver, work out how much Gold £40,000 would have bought back then and then apply today's gold prices to arrive at the answer. In 1950 the average price of a troy ounce was $34.72. The GBP/USD exchange rate was roughly .42p to $1 so £40,000 was equivalent to $95,238. This would have bought ~2743 troy ounces. At today's gold price ($1245) this would be equivalent to $3,415,072 or £2,276,714. Obviously these are not exact but should be more or less correct.
The Australian Colonies were using the British currency in 1850 and Australian Dollars did not become the Australian currency until 1966. Five Pounds GBP in 1850 had the purchasing power of about $698.56 AUD today. NOTE - This historical conversion is the result of many calculations and considerations by a purpose designed program for which I can take no credit. The resulting answer should only be regarded as an approximation.
70,000 dollars
Probably about $ 12- 13 millions.
In 1850, a pound was worth the equivalent of 94.12 pounds today. In 1890, it was worth slightly less.
Antoinette Sterling was born on 1850-01-23.
25 euro
One way to work this out would be to find out the price in 1950 of gold/silver, work out how much Gold £40,000 would have bought back then and then apply today's gold prices to arrive at the answer. In 1950 the average price of a troy ounce was $34.72. The GBP/USD exchange rate was roughly .42p to $1 so £40,000 was equivalent to $95,238. This would have bought ~2743 troy ounces. At today's gold price ($1245) this would be equivalent to $3,415,072 or £2,276,714. Obviously these are not exact but should be more or less correct.
The Australian Colonies were using the British currency in 1850 and Australian Dollars did not become the Australian currency until 1966. Five Pounds GBP in 1850 had the purchasing power of about $698.56 AUD today. NOTE - This historical conversion is the result of many calculations and considerations by a purpose designed program for which I can take no credit. The resulting answer should only be regarded as an approximation.
All of today's birds existed in 1850.
Slaves today are cheaper than ever. In 1850, an average slave in the American South cost the equivalent of $40,000 in today's money. Today a slave costs about
There are 16 oz to a lb so divide 1850 by 16 to get 115.625 lbs
it was different to how it is today, earlier in the 1850's it was not very clean
The weight of a cotton bale in 1850 was around 480 pounds. In 1850 almost 17,800 bales of cotton were harvested in North Carolina alone.
70,000 dollars
One Shilling GBP in 1850 had the purchasing power of about £3.83 GBP today. One Shilling GBP in 1850 had the purchasing power of about $6.25 USD today. NOTE - This historical conversion is the result of many calculations and considerations by a purpose designed program for which I can take no credit. The resulting answer should only be regarded as an approximation.