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Title: The Green Sign: Secret Decoder Ring Post by: Daphne on August 31, 2010, 05:36:45 pm £65,000? How much is that in real money?
By comparison, using the consumer price index, £65,000 would buy about the same as £5,350,000 today. In US dollars, that's about $8,150,000 as of today. OK, half a crown, then? A half-crown was a British coin worth 2 shillings, 6 pence. That would have been about three days pay of a common laborer in the period. As wages have risen faster than prices over time, you can imagine that he is flashing somewhere between a $50 and a pair of Benjamins. QC? Silk? WTF? QC is Queen's Council, a higher class of solicitor in England and Wales. "Coming to the silk" or "taking the silk" is another term for becoming a QC, as QCs wear distinctive silk gowns. It would have been very unusual, but not unheard-of, for a solicitor as young as Hiatt to become a QC; it would definitely be the mark of a wunderkind. |