Originally Posted by
cycleheimer
Comes up just a little short of the $24 purchase of Manhattan from the native Americans living there...
"In 1626 Peter Minuit bought Manhattan island from the local Indians for a load of cloth, beads, hatchets, and other odds and ends then worth 60 Dutch guilders. According to my Encyclopedia Britannica, 60 guilders in 1626 would buy you 1-1/2 pounds of silver."
... but still pretty good!!!!!
Better yet, the trade of new amsterdam for surinam. They really thought they struck a good deal, a decrepit harbour for a nice little spice producing country. How wrong my fellow dutchies were!