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

Douglas Scott Treado, MA
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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