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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1020156, member: 112&quot;]Not really. What you are thinking of was a reference I made to what a ducat would have been worth in US money back when ducats were still being used - circa 1800&#039;s. Answer was $2.50.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But what Collect is asking is a much more complicated question. Not that I can&#039;t answer it, just that it takes a lot of work to answer it. I have several studies done on the buying power of money, wages, what foodstuffs, textiles, candles etc etc all cost, that cover many different periods in time. One of those being 1500-1550.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone that wants, I will send a copy of the study so they can figure it out on their own. Just PM me your email address.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to give you an idea - a ducat in 1540 would buy 23 liters of red wine. 16.3 kilos of butter. 26.3 kilos of salted beef. etc etc etc. But a ducat, going by memory here, is less than half the size of the coin posted by Conrad - the Henri D&#039;Or.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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