Today you can’t buy anything for 2 cents, but way back in 1914 you could buy any of the following: A Cake Pan 3 Yards of White Tubular Corset Lace A Hardwood Butter Ladle According to the Inflation Calculator, $0.02 in 1914 is worth $0.43 in 2011.

To bad that $0.43 still doesn’t buy much[...]