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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">The following link gives a site with other links, including a currency converter from the National Archives:</font><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(56, 130, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; font-size: small; ">projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#388222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#388222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Hope this is useful.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#388222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#388222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">PW<br></span></font><br><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "></div><hr id="stopSpelling" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">From: editor@aDSp8QeRIbEqBUh79kEDsr_pOkh3zWuYWICIwCwX0-G3o1lOkMJMmrLi5CxstCYUoJO3jZColBJxuDEvN-4_sKEKfA.yahoo.invalid</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:48:54 +0000</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Cost of 1669 Bell Metal</font><br><br>
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At 11:33 16/02/2011, DrL wrote:<br>
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>Does anyone have a feeling for the value of bell <br>
>metal in 1669. I have discovered a reference to <br>
>£38-3-10 of good bell metal and £8-0-0 of coarse <br>
>bell metal having been retrieved from St Magnus <br>
>the Martyr after the Great Fire of London, and I <br>
>am trying to get a handle on how much metal that represents.<br>
<br>
I imagine that £38 was a very great deal of money <br>
in 1669 - can anyone on the list do the <br>
calculation as to what that represents in today's money?<br>
<br>
There was an item on Radio 4 news this morning <br>
which reported that theft of copper cabling in <br>
the UK is at an all-time high. Apparently the <br>
police are setting up a special task-force unit to try to tackle it.<br>
<br>
RAL <br>
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