What could you buy with a Gold or Silver dollar in 1850??

MAT1

50lb of flour.....

what else??

RYK

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MAT1

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lol - 100 pennies

Batman23

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200 half-cent pieces!

lkeigwin

Lots of problems with questions like this. What do you use as a measurement indicator? Skilled or unskilled wages? Consumer Price Index? Goods and services were a lot different then.

$1 in 1850 had a purchasing power of approximately $29 today. This is based on the CPI. Figure in 1850 you could buy a couple of DVD's for a buck.
Lance.

tjkillian

A skilled bricklayer on the Erie canal made $2.50 per day.

A Windsor chair, sack back, could be bought for $1.00 in 1800.

doh

A pretty good hour with Lurleen

ambro51

A very nice Daguerreotype portrait could be had for $1.00

That 30 to 1 ratio is pretty well spot on with a lot of everyday things of a century and a half ago.

BaseballAbs

I was born in the 70's so i don't have a clue.

ProofArtworkonCircs

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Actually the silver in 4 1850 quarters was worth more than a gold dollar. I am not sure anybody would sell for that.

melvin289

Four shots of whiskey or a bottle of Laudanum.

Ron

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