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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (188126)	5/29/2022 4:28:24 AM
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A cup of coffee for an ounce of silver? (or currently 5 ounces of silver ??) Sounds like a rip off to me. It's not like they had to transport the coffee beans over by sailboat or anything these days. The Great Tea Race of 1866 \| History\| Smithsonian Magazine The UK climate is ideal for growing tea, I wonder why it never happened? Growing tea in the UK on a commercial scale – Drink Tea Hub Winston Churchill had the idea looking into growing tea in the UK during WW2 as it was seen as a vital for the war effort. Sir Isaac Newton did make his mistakes just like everyone does. Market Mania: The South Sea Bubble That Ensnared Even Sir Isaac Newton (cnbctv18.com) But he probably also got ahead of the crowd by drinking the odd cup of the new fad drink.... coffee. How Caffeine Accelerated The Scientific Enlightenment \| by Drew Dennis \| Medium Coffee houses - MacTutor History of Mathematics (st-andrews.ac.uk) I expect he paid little more than a few farthings for it though. Maybe a penny. Oh wait... I have a record here... 8d for a cup of coffee. 18th century cost of living - redcoats history (tripod.com) There were 12d to the shilling, which had 2/11 of a troy ounce of silver in it. So I make it eight and a quarter (8.25) cups of coffee per troy ounce of silver. That sounds about right to me. Shilling (British coin) - Wikipedia I have some 1910 to 1912 British silver 3d coins. Half a sixpence. In those days you could get a loaf of bread and two pints of beer for threepenny coin if I am remembering those figures correctly. I would not bother going to starbucks. A cup of the best coffe should still be under $10 imho. .