While researching money in another time and place, I chanced upon this 86-year-old article from American Historical Review about currency in and monetary rivalry between the colonies: http://www.dinsdoc.com/andrews-2.htm Note that our ancestors' "pine-tree shilling" was only worth ninepence in the mother country. The author and editors assumed Americans of 1918 would be familiar with the English system (used until the 1970s), i.e., 12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound. Dinsmore Documentation (of Westfield, Mass.) has put online a number of other articles about the colonies written prior to 1923. You can browse by subject: http://www.dinsdoc.com/colonial-3.htm or, in case you are familiar with the authors of the day, by name: http://www.dinsdoc.com/colonial-2.htm Cheers, Ron Kyser