On 20/01/15 11:13, Graeme Wall wrote: > On 20/01/2015 03:59, Mary Lou via wrote: >> >> Does anyone have a website that will convert British pounds to >> American dollars at 1916 rates? >> >> I'm trying to determine what 20 pounds, 12 shillings and 4d would >> have been worth. >> >> Thanks much..... >> > > Off hand it would have been about $4 to the pound, as a youth I > remember half crowns (2s6d or 12.5p) being referred to as half a > dollar. Close to $4.8 to the pound: https://www.creditwritedowns.com/2014/02/long-decline-great-british-pound.html So £20 12/4d would have been almost exactly $100. Richard