บท 61: Twenty Gold Coins For A Coffee?

In the end, the price of coffee was set at twenty gold coins per bag after roasting.

William was the one who strongly insisted on this.

It might seem extremely cheap compared to sugar, but the real issue was that no one understood the value of coffee itself.

If we consider tea in this world as a comparison, no matter how high-end it is, it can't be priced like sugar.

Certainly, if consumed as medicine, it would be one thing, but as a luxury item, the price is outrageous.

One gold coin is worth about a million yen in modern currency. Even if you can get about twenty-five cups from one bag, that makes each cup around eighty thousand yen.

Even though the buyer is a noble, it's not a reasonable price when you think about it calmly.

For comparison, the price of tea when it first arrived in England in the 17th century was eight shillings per pound.

If we roughly convert it, that's about twenty-four thousand yen for a hundred grams.