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April 1, 2020April 3, 2020Viking Era

Homespun cloth used for money in Viking Age Iceland.

Money is usually defined as something that is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, and a store of value. For […]

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020comparison data, U.S. Civil War

Prices of slaves on the eastern shore of Maryland before the Civil War.

Watched the uplifting and depressing movie Harriet last night. Second time I’ve seen it. Fabulous tale about the efforts of Harriet Tubman […]

January 3, 2020December 29, 2019Other eras

A wild guess on the parts of King Solomon’s wealth that can be quantified – part 4

Let’s try bringing together the previous guesses (can’t even call them estimates) of the value of those portions of King Solomon’s wealth […]

December 27, 2019December 8, 2019Other eras

Guess at value of 1946 estate expressed in 2019 dollars

  The values assigned to my grandfather’s estate when it was probated are listed here. My determination of a adjustment factor of […]

December 20, 2019December 2, 2019Other eras

Consumer price index from 1940 through 2019

For an indicator of the changes in prices from the World War 2 era through today I pulled CPI information from the […]

December 18, 2019December 18, 2019Other eras

Military pay rates during World War Two compared to 2019

What were the pay rates during World War Two in contrast to pay rates in the U.S. military today? What is the […]

December 16, 2019December 16, 2019comparison data, Other eras, U.S. Civil War

Pay rate for privates in each of America’s wars

Pay for American soldiers during each major war is provided by We Are the Mighty. Their article, This is how much troops […]

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019Viking Era

One usuable indicator of the value of a Viking sword. How many weapons you could buy today for that price?

What was the price of a Viking sword at the time? How about expressing a price then in some unit of measure […]

October 1, 2018comparison data, Middle Ages

Cost and time to cross the Atlantic has dropped by more than 90% in the last 500 years.

Transatlantic travel time has dropped radically in the last 500 years.  Time to transit the Atlantic has dropped about 99% and cost […]

July 18, 2018January 19, 2019U.S. Civil War

Salary for top level military leaders during and after the American Civil War

This may not be ancient finances, but salary paid to the senior level military commanders in the 1860s and 1870s provides a […]

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