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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3287639, member: 57463&quot;]Nice coin, interesting times. Battle of Tippicanoe (1811), the War of 1812,...&nbsp; The coin probably did a lot of hard work between the times when it sat around in a bag with 99 or 999 others as the reserves of a bank. Fifty cents a day was often the average wage of a semi-skilled craftsman of the time. (Wages fell during the recessions that followed panics.) But a growing nation needed carpenters, bricklayers, and all manner of smithies. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of statistics from Massachussets offered by the University of Missouri, here:</p><p><a href="https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1810-1819" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1810-1819" rel="nofollow">https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1810-1819</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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