Currency Exchange Rate in 1799: Poland

Cracow, Warsaw, etc.

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

Coin	Equivalent	£	Shillings	Pence
Shelon	-	0	0	7/48
Grosh	3 Shelons	0	0	7/16
Coustic	5 Groshens	0	0	2 1/4
Tinse	3 Coustics	0	0	7
Ort	18 Groshens	0	0	8 1/8
Florin	30 Groshen	0	1	2
Rix-Dollar (Note 1)	90 Groshen	0	3	6
Ducat	8 Florins	0	9	4
Frederic d'Or	5 Rix-Dollars (Note 1)	0	17	6

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. 1035

Placed on the Napoleon Series: July 2004

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