Dutch Republic:Prices and Wages

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Job Berckheyde, Bakery, 1681

Prices

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The value of the Dutch Guilder in Euros - evaluation of the International Institute of Social History based on an index of equivalents in purchasing power. Euro/Dutch Guilder-Converter by the IISG Excel 2000 file by IISG Excel 4 file by ISSG

University

  • Franeker: 3500 students, mostly Dutch. German students survive with 200 Rthl. (500 fl.) per year, yet 300-400 Rthl. (750-1000 fl.) make life more comfortable. The ordinary tables are at 1 Rthl. (2 fl, 10 st.) per week. [Stolle, Reise (1703), p.304]

Literature

Posthumus, Nicholaas Wilhelmus, Nederlandsche Prijsgeschiedenis (Leiden, 1943).




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