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Date Posted: Monday, February 21, 09:04:56am
Author: Lij
Author Host/IP: kntpin04-nas-01-s206.cinergycom.net / 216.135.24.206
Subject: Measuring Worth

I wanted to find out what $3500 in the year 1856 would be worth now. I found that Measuring Worth:

http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/index.php

Did the trick although you had to base it on various indeces, which gave a range from $60,000 to $3million! I think the one at about $1.3million is best.

If you're wondering $3500 is the amount an ancestor lent to a Catholic Bishop. I guess the guy was loaded back in that day. His son committed suicide during the Depression though.

But Measuring Worth is sort of a neat site. And it deals with other currencies than the dollar. Although its indexing may not go back in time as with the dollar (which they claim can be determined back to 1790.

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[> Old money -- AurraSing, Monday, February 21, 01:26:07pm (out-bc-252.wireless.telus.com/209.121.225.252)

I should look into a coin set from 1967, the Confedration coins. Very lustrous because they were high in silver content and beautiful animals on the reverse. We have a real obsession with creatures on our money up here...


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[> [> Canadian coins can be beautiful.... -- Lij, Monday, February 21, 01:34:25pm (kntpin04-nas-01-s221.cinergycom.net/216.135.24.221)

Ours have been so.... staid, conservative - at least until the state quarters came around.


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