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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8526528, member: 27832&quot;]Not a lot. By inflation calculations, its purchasing power was about the same as today&#039;s quarter -- but price <i>patterns</i> were different then, with food and clothing relatively more expensive, and wages relatively lower.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve read that &quot;ten-penny&quot; nails were called that because you&#039;d pay ten pennies for a hundred of them. But that would&#039;ve been <i>actual</i> British pennies, not cents, and it might also have been a &quot;great hundred&quot;, or 120 nails.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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