Life Union Corporation, 1, Money, Sterling Silver Farthings
at www.life-union.com/1/sterlingsilverfarthings.htm
http://raynhamhistoricalsociety.home.comcast.net/~raynhamhistoricalsociety/
1665 c silver + 135 c copper = 1800 c total weight = 0.925 sterling silver
6.9375 c silver + 0.5625 c copper = 7.5 c total weight = 22.5 grain barley
sterling silver pennies
1.42045455 grams total weight pennies
0.355113636 grams total weight farthings
6 wampumpeage = 1 penny at 24 grain barley sterling silver = 1.5 inches
wampumpeage = 38.1 mm wampumpeage
at $5.00 for 10 mm, then 5*3.81 = $19.05
22.5/24*19.05 = $17.859375/4 = $4.46484375 * 1.05 ma sales tax = $4.68808594
rounded to $4.69 per farthing
1 grams of sterling silver = 1/0.3355113636 = 2.98052498 farthings, nealry 3
farthings.
2.98052498*4.68808594 = $13.9729573 including 5% ma sales tax = $13.3075783 per
gram sterling silver
farthing penny wampumpeage rate sterling silver.
for quick calculation value, 1 gram of sterling silver = 3 farthings including
sales tax at $14.00 usd per gram, so
$4.67 per farthing.
X AES = 10 aes = 17280 c bronze 88% copper 12% tin to 96% copper 4% tin.
Updated July 8, 2009 M