A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money
Tables Illustrative of the Successive Changes in the Standard, IN THE WEIGHT OF THE COINS, AND IN THE Relative Values of
19th Century John Ramsay McCulloch (ed.) EnglishA Table showing the successive Nominal Values of One Pound Weight of Fine Silver and Fine Gold; and the Proportion, true Value, or Number of Pounds Weight of Fine Silver in One Pound Weight of Fine Gold, from 1344 to 1717. N.B. The Pound Weight till 18 Henry VIII. is that of the Tower (11 oz. 5 dwt. Troy), and since that time the Pound Troy. (Snelling’s Gold Coins, p. 34.)
A table showing the number of Pounds Sterling contained in One Pound Weight, both Tower and Troy, the Quantity of Standard Silver contained in One Pound Sterling, and the Proportion the former Pounds Sterling bear to the present. (Snelling’s Silver Coins, p. 51.)
N.B. The two last columns are the same, the last having the value of the Fraction reduc’d into Shillings and Pence.