eighteen shillings nine pence the pound unspecified sense

William H. Ukers (author)

• eighteen shillings nine pence the pound equals about $4.68
  assertsneutralsource: coffee-pg28500

  equal to about $4.68

  judge verdicts (2)

  • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage: 'William Penn wrote in his _Accounts_ that in 1683 coffee in the berry was sometimes procured in New York at a cost of eighteen shillings nine pence the pound, equal to about $4.68.' The exact equivalence is explicitly provided in the text.
  • qualifier_fidelity 0.85 pass — The claim's qualifiers are mostly faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author, the stance is appropriately 'asserts', and the sentiment is neutral. The quote matches verbatim in the passage: 'equal to about $4.68'. However, there is a minor issue with temporal context: the passage specifies this price was from 1683 ('William Penn wrote in his Accounts that in 1683 coffee in the berry was sometimes procured'), so the 'when' field should be '1683' rather than null. The context field is appropriately empty since no specific sense restriction applies. Deducting 0.15 points for the incomplete temporal qualifier.