This time the question asked what would it have cost you to buy a mahogany wardrobe in 1802 Maryland? The answer is $6.00, the equivalent of $84 in 2002 dollars.
The question, and answer, were found in Value of a Dollar, Colonial Era. This is a Salem Press History ebook. It provides a collection of price history tables for goods, services, wages, investments, along with economic and historical chronologies for the American colonies and the United States, 1600-1865. It can be found on LAPL’s Research & Homework page under V and accessed with your library card.
