A Platform of Research in Economic History

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The Marteau Early 18th Century Currency Converter began as a website designed to facilitate computations with different 17th and 18th moneys. Our conversion tools handle the most frequent (and mostly non decimal) systems of the period. Read the Frequently Asked Questions-section for further information.

The website around the tools offers you additional information on the individual currencies, it offers you a monetary dictionary and it gives you information on prices and wages in different early 18th century moneys.

Our platform should give you first ideas of how money mattered in the 17th and 18th centuries. We were therefore eager to offer editions of 17th and early 18th century texts dealing with monetary questions alongside with the conversion tools.

The project will be gradually wikified the in order to invite specialists to modify our work – and to correct mistakes wherever we have made them. Contact us to become a co-editor.