At the current price of silver, that 20 pounds sterling is about $9000 a year. I don’t know if in Bronte’s time, a pound sterling’s value was actually 1 pound of sterling silver. I know that at one point in history, it was.
I know that at one point in history, it was.
That was before Soro’s war on British currency. I’m buying silver up at these low prices. I still seem to shy away from the paper currency though, unless its T.P. ;)
Hell, back when I was a kid, I took a Silver Certificate $1 bill to the bank and traded it for a silver dollar coin. Mid-sixties.