Today being the Queen's Birthday public holiday was a opportunity to sleep in. Then brunch theh we were running late so we all piled into the Vito and drove into the Uni to go to the Schonell theatre and watch the Queensland Musical Theatre Company's production of Oliver. One of Dan's conteporaries was in it.
Acording to wikipedia Oliver Twist set in 1837.
I believe Oliver was sold for somewhere between 3 and 7 pounds. So I wondered what we might get for one of our kids. This investigation proved to be somewhat difficult.
This web site only went back to 1900
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html
1 pound in 1900 is worth 101 pounds in 2012.
This web site goes back further but starting at 1837 our 1 pound is still only 100 pounds now.
http://safalra.com/other/historical-uk-inflation-price-conversion/
So it would seem he was only worth between 300 and 700 pounds.
We convert to AUD using this web site
http://www.ozforex.com.au/currency-converter
and we find the child is woth a poltry $AU468 to $AU1092.68
Ebay?
Cripes we spend more than that on school fees.
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