Hello all, well I think the title covers it. I have been pulling my hair out with the internet. I keep asking the question and all I get is gold dealers and what a 1820s sovereign is worth now.
And I thought the superhighway always came up trumps. I however, know that on this site at least two people write historical fiction but of course facts of the era have to be correct. Please help me from inflicting baldness on myself by pulling my hair out.
Thank you, Paul G
A full sovereign would have been 1 pound sterling in 1820, worth the quivalent of around £800 today. Sovereigns today are the same weight, and while nominally worth £1, have a value in the gold of around £240.
https://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/
You state the obvious Jimmy, everybody knows those facts. However, you forgot to mention the gold wrist-sundial timepiece.
How could you have forgotten that one... Jimmy!!!
Paul.
May I interest you in a bottle of Doctor Jim's Patented Hair-Restorer? At tuppence-farthing it will be my financial ruination.