The Crown & The Cross
 - A Web Presentation on the Thirty Years' War -

Monetary Conventions
From The Thirty Years' War by Geoffrey Parker (London: Routledge, 1997)

As far as possible, all sums of money are given in Imperial thalers (Reichsthaler).  Conversions from other currencies have been made according to the following scheme:
 
4.8 thalers
4.5 escudos
12 livres tournois
10 Dutch florins
6 Rhine florins
ALL EQUAL
1 Pound Sterling

 
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