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| - | *[http://www.pierre-marteau.com/currency/converter.html The Marteau Currency Converter] | + | *[http://www.pierre-marteau.com/currency/converter.html The Marteau Early 18th-Century Currency Converter] |
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| + | The [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/currency/converter.html Marteau Early 18th Century Currency Converter] should be most of all a website helping you to make sense of 17th and 18th century documents mentioning sums of money. | ||
| - | The [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/currency/converter.html Marteau Early 18th Century Currency Converter] was initially designed to facilitate computations with 17th and 18th moneys. Our conversion tools handle the most frequent (and mostly non decimal) systems of the 17th and 18th centuries. Read the [[The Marteau Currency Converter: Introduction|Frequently Asked Questions]]-section for further information. | + | The pages you have reached will not necessarily tell you how much money your sum would be today, but they will give you information about how much money that was 300 years ago (in other coins or in goods and wages). |
| - | The website around these tools offers you additional information on the [[Coins and Currencies|individual currencies]], it offers you a [[Money: Dictionary|monetary dictionary]] and it gives you information on [[Prices and Wages|prices and wages]] in different early 18th century moneys. All these areas should grow gradually. | + | If you have information to add or if you have documents dealing with money you would like to se published on the web, don not hesitate to open your personal Marteau account, |
| - | We hope we can provide with our tools first ideas of how money mattered in the 17th and 18th centuries. We are therefore eager to offer [[History of Economics: Editions|editions]] of 17th and early 18th century texts dealing with monetary questions alongside with the conversion tools. | + | [mailto:verlagshaus@pierre-marteau.com] |
| - | The project will be wikified over the next months the in order to allow and invite specialists to modify our work. Contact if you feel tempted to give the site directions we did not forsee. | + | |
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The pages you have reached will not necessarily tell you how much money your sum would be today, but they will give you information about how much money that was 300 years ago (in other coins or in goods and wages). If you have information to add or if you have documents dealing with money you would like to se published on the web, don not hesitate to open your personal Marteau account, mailto:verlagshaus@pierre-marteau.com
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