"I have a variety of family members' wills denoting their personal effects in British pounds. I would like to be able to convert these into Canadian dollars for their particular eras. Does anyone know of a website which would provide this conversion? I've looked and looked but haven't found one yet."
To which the reply was
" If you go onto the National Archives website they have a converter for old money to new in pounds Stirling for today's value and then you should be able to convert to the currency at today's exchange rate"
See: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/default2.asp
Talking of which, I found a stash of old coins this week. they included a Victorian farthing, an Edward VII penny and lots of George V, George VI and some Elizabeth II predecimal coins. Unfortunately there were no Edward VIII coins which isn't surprising as he wasn't on the throne less than a year (20 January 1936 – 11 December 1936).
Somewhere I have some Georgian pennies and some old silver sixpenses (the ones which were traditionally put into Christmas puddings).
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