|
Currency |
Equivalent |
|
Escudo (Spain) |
1.1 ducats (Spain, from 1620), or 2.5 fl. (Dutch) |
|
Ducat (Spain) |
2.35 fl. (Dutch), or 1.4 fl. (German) |
|
Ducat (Naples) |
0.7 ducat (Spain) |
|
Florin (German) |
1.7 fl. (Dutch) |
|
Livre (French) |
initially 0.7 fl. (German); 0.5 fl. after 1640 |
|
Pound sterling |
4.2–4.8 talers |
|
Riksdaler (Denmark/Sweden) |
1–1.5 fl. (German) |
|
Taler (Empire) |
1.5 fl. (German), or 2.5 fl. (Dutch) |
It is difficult to give modern equivalents to seventeenth-century currency. As a guide to value, 7.5–10 florins would buy enough grain to feed a person for a whole year in 1618.