Florin valueI suggest you get a cost figure for a thousand yellow bricks
today (2003), and then you'll have your answer!

Douglas Scott Treado, MA
Project & Sales Manager
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  To Historians All!
   In  "American Building: The Historical Forces That Shaped It" by James
Marston Fitch a line on page 13, reads as follows:
  "In 1628 the canny Rensselaers were producing the favorite Dutch yellow
brick on their estates near Albany, N.Y., and selling them to all comers for
fifteen florins a thousand."

  My question : How can "fifteen florins" be converted to a 2003 monetary
value?

  Leo Dodd
  Historic Brighton