Reply To: The cost of an artillery piece?

[Tony S]

Found this, for what it’s worth –

“a 24-pounder iron cannon cost $21,614 in 2015 U.S. dollars; a bronze cannon would cost $46,374).”

From https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/historyculture/arms.htm

I would have guessed it to be more, to be honest.