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Old 08-18-2018, 02:01 PM   #12
Polydamas
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Default Re: musket ball costs?

Yeah, in the end GURPS prices are never going to be completely consistent, or right for any one setting, because they have been pulled from all kinds of sources (including wild guesses!) by dozens of people over 30 years. If you care, you can do research for your specific setting.

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Originally Posted by Dalillama View Post
This list of supplies from 1622 shows 18 shillings for 20 pounds of powder, 5 shillings for 60 pounds of shot or lead, and 1£ 2s for a musket. A little bit of maths should be able to work put a conversion rate to GURPS$, as well as a ratio of how much shot can be had for the price of a musket.
I wish I could find the old HTML version of that list!

I have the impression that in the Jacobean period, a shilling a day was a good income for a worker in town. So:
20 days @ 1 shilling a day = an Average income of G$800/month (p. B517)
1 shilling = G$40
Weight per Shot for a Musket is 0.15 lb so 80 lbs is 533 shots
23 shillings for powder and ball, 22 shillings for the musket (and accoutrements presumably)
That looks like G$ 1.72 per shot and G$880 for the musket. That is on the same order as the price of a new matchlock musket in USD today http://therifleshoppe.com/catalog_pa...matchlocks.htm or http://www.middlesexvillagetrading.com/MML.shtml
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