Try
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/historical/bubbles.html
It will show you the value of florins in relationship to common purchaseables c1634-1638.
Four fat oxen 480 florins
Eight fat swine 240 florins, etc.
At 10:36 AM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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