Tudor Currency Exchange Rates
1 Florin = 1 Ducat (Venetian)
            or
56 English pence or (4 shillings 8 pence)
            or
56 Imperial Weisspfenning

1540 Tudor prices £1 to £500 modern.
Plain Armour £10
Princely Parade Armour £100
Palfrey £5-10
Destrier £50-100

1527 Hans Seusenhofer Innsbruck charged
etched armour for the field & tilt 70 florins (£17@)
etched armour for the field 50 florins (£12@)
etched half armour 25 florins (£6@)

1540 circa Greenwich armours
Undecorated garniture £12 - Complete Harness for field & tilt £10
Complete Field Harness £8 - Half Armour £6 13s 4d - Leg Harness £1 6s 8d
Coat of Plates £4 - Cuirass & Collar £2 - Breastplate £1 - Backplate 13s 4d
Helmet £1 6s 8d - Pauldrons 10s - Gauntlets 10s

1557 Andreas Brenker est. For Archduke Ferdinand of the Tyrol
decorated garniture 400 florins nearly £100
armour 200 florins, gilding 100 florins, etching 100 florins
munitions armours 1 or 2 florins

1620 Armour of proof £13.10s


Source:
The Royal Armoury at Greenwich 1515-1649
a History of its Technology
by Alan Williams & Anthony de Reuck
Royal Armouries Monograph 4


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