Currency Exchange Rate in 1799: Livonia

Riga, Revel, Narma, etc.

Note: This table shows the exchange rate in English Pound Sterling.

Coin	Equivalent	£	Shillings	Pence
Blacken	-	0	0	1/64
Grosh	6 Blackens	0	0	3/16
Vording	9 Blackens	0	0	7/16
Whiten	2 Groshen	0	0	14/16
Marc	6 Groshen	0	0	2 4/7
Florin	30 Groshen	0	1	2
Rix-Dollar (Note 1)	90 Groshen	0	3	6
Albertus	108 Groshen	0	4	2 6/15
Copper-Plate Dollar	64 Whitens	0	5	0

Notes:

1. Imaginary money use in accounting, signifying a fictitious piece which did not exist, but was used to represent other pieces.

Source:

Guthrie, William. A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar and Present State of the several Kingdoms of the World. Montrose, 1799. P. 1036

Placed on the Napoleon Series: July 2004

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