On Nov 11, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
> Would I be right in thinking that the historical exchange rate for
> dollars to the pound for September 1978 would be $1.96?
Here, have the Fed do the work for you:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/EXUSUK.txt
1978-09-01 1.9595