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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8152870, member: 115909&quot;]Oh yeah! Here is another chart I find extremely interesting and useful.</p><p><br /></p><p>It shows how much £1 was worth in precious metals through different periods of time.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422270[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s very useful for imagining larger purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example if a War Horse is £50 in 1420 and in 1420 £1 was 215.8 grams of silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>50 x 215.8 = 10,790 grams of silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>So a War Horse would’ve cost almost 11 kilograms of silver. Or you could do the same with gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can even try to compare it to modern times and determine today’s value for that much silver. In my example it would be roughly $10,000 today which sounds reasonable for a trained war horse with all the riding gear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway I always use this chart when reading about medieval European coinage so I was hoping you’d find it useful <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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