What could you buy with a nickel in 1920?

Q-A2A Why should we specific about nickel ? Any object price goes up nominally with time period and we get nominal value now due to inflation growth and this value is also determined by another variables supply & demand. read more

You could buy two heads of cabbage or half a loaf of bread with five cents US in about 1920. Today that cabbage costs about one dollar (forty times as much) and a loaf of bread costs nearly five dollars (about a hundred times as much). read more

According to the "Westegg Inflation Calculator," in 1920 a nickel could buy the equivalent of $0.51 of merchandise today. Of course some commodities themselves have increased in price, so the nickle bottle of Coke in 1920 costs you 75 cents, not 50, in 2009, and as someone else said, you COULD get a loaf of bread for a nickle then, which would cost you $2.50 or more now. read more

1905 – Five cents at the J.S. Mill’s Lunch and Sandwich Room in St. Paul MN will buy a sandwich of egg, wienerwurst, cheese, or pigs’ feet. (Five cents then would equal $1.35 today.) 1914 – About 1/4 of drug store soda fountains charge 5 cents for an ice cream soda. read more