Here's a very interesting currency converter from the National Archives (UK); http://tinyurl.com/oknxu In the 'Old Money to New' tab you can enter a value and a year and it will show what the current value is today. In the 'Buying Power' tab it lets you enter an amount in today's money and a year and it gives an example of what your amount would buy then. E.g. in 1270 £1.00 had the same value as today's £532.72 and £1.00 in today's money would get you - nothing. £10.00 was worth five (old) pence which was a days pay for a craftsman in the building trade. You can nominate years between 1270 and 1900 in ten-year intervals and between 1900 and 2005 in five-year intervals. Currency values are quoted in GBP (UK Pounds). Folk who don't use GBP can use this site; http://www.xe.com/ucc/ to first convert their local currency to GBP. Geo.