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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 942424, member: 4552&quot;]Actually I suspect the answer is a lot more complicated than people think. In the recent past prices were fairly set by companies, organizations, laws, etc. As you go farther into the past, many, many things effected the sale of items everywhere. For example in some areas in the past money was seldom used since the barter systems was more commone. Also, and not to long ago, trading was also common with pelts, skins, trading of all types of items was even as common as necessary. Even when I was a kid my grandparents did almost all of their purchases by trading or bartering. I&#039;m sure the usage of coins in the 1700&#039;s and even well into the 1800&#039;s were not the most used system in most of the Western areas of our country and even in most farm lands. </p><p>By this I mean the purchasing power of a $10 coin was what ever the area and situation demanded. You could say a loaf of bread was a Nickel but if you just traded for a slab of bacon, really difficult to say what anything really costs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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