---- RockCatt@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone know what the value of 1 pound Sterling in 2009 would be > compared to the value in 1714? I'm just curious as to what money would be worth > today. Barb, This is something with which I have worked continually over the years. It is very difficult to be exact in the subject. First from 1601-1816, one pound sterling was equal to about 3.87 troy ounces of sterling silver. Secondly, from review of various articles on line, it appears that one pound sterling in 1714 is around $2500 dollars today. There are thousands of articles at google regarding this. At Google I entered: pound sterling in 1714 purchasing power compared to 2008 I got more information than I could digest or wanted to attempt to digest. When a younger son, a daughter, or a widow was left 10 lbs per annum as a living back in the 17 hundreds, that was a considerable bit--$25,000. Of course as most folks rarely saw a farthing, those 10 lbs could equal much more in comparsion. People talking in pounds sterling were definitely among the better off as most folks never saw a farthing. When a peppercorn was the annual rent for hundreds of acres of land in Maryland and Virginia in the 1700s, take the value of a peppercorn today and compare it to the rent of crop land in Maryland and Virginia today. That might give a better idea.