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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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Subject: Florin value
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
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