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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4885, member: 57463&quot;]Depends on what you mean by &quot;equivalent.&quot;&nbsp; As noted already, that would be about an ounce of gold.&nbsp; It would be a FR100 coin, though I believe they did not exist then.&nbsp; The amount would have been in the form of five 20 franc coins.&nbsp; FR20 was about $4 US at the time.&nbsp; Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and the US $20 &quot;double eagle&quot; started in 1849.</p><p>See, for example:</p><p><a href="http://www.cpror.com/cprorGB/guide/guide.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cpror.com/cprorGB/guide/guide.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cpror.com/cprorGB/guide/guide.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>However... as for purchasing power -- which I think is your real question -- a modern twenty dollars today would be like 20 cents or 1 franc back then.&nbsp; Back then, the average free worker earned about 50 cents to 1 dollar a day in the US and less in Europe, one to two francs.&nbsp; Farm labor was at a lower wage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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