Classical Court: On further reflection... by John Marks

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On further reflection...

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In Reply to: Exactly - very interesting! [nt] ;-) posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 19, 2023 at 10:58:47:

It's a bit anachronistic, but... you could look at the Louis d'Or as the functional equivalent of a US $20 "Double Eagle" gold coin. Which came about 100 years later, so there is not a lot of exactitude.

But as an analogy, it works; because, 100 x $20 gold coins is $2000, and if you guesstimate the inflation of the sum of $2000 before the year 1800 to today, it comes out to be about $45,000.00.

So, I am pretty confident that the claim that Bach was paid more than $300,000 in today's money doesn't hold water.

ciao,

john

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Topic - Trying to compute the present value of Bach's payment for the Goldberg Variations - John Marks 09:20:46 03/19/23 ( 2)

Exactly - very interesting! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 10:58:47 03/19/23 ( 1)
- On further reflection... - John Marks 03/19/23 13:49:41 03/19/23 ( 0)