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Re: Queen quality effected by mating nuc size?
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According to this calculator (https://westegg.com/inflation/), $10 "for a high quality queen" in 1870 would be equivalent to a bit over $200 today.

Inflation calculations prior to WWI are unreliable, though.  For comparison:
According to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/, $10 in 1913 would be equivalent to almost $260 today.
https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html puts $10 in 1913 at $257 today.
https://www.in2013dollars.com/ puts $10 in 1870 at $196 today.

So even though historical inflation calculations can be more than a little sketchy, multiple semi-independent analyses are converging on a general answer around $200.  That works out to an average annual inflation rate of a shade over 2% per year over the century and a half since that article came out.

Mike Rossander

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