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Grain Prices in Cologne 1531-1797 (Metz)

Grain prices as supplied by Rainer Metz and compiled for the printed edition of Dietrich Ebeling and Franz Irsigler, Getreideumsatz, Getreide- und Brotpreise in Köln, 1368-1797 (Köln, 1976).

For all quotations of grain prices and quantities, as well as bread prices and weights, see Dietrich Ebeling and Franz Irsigler, Getreideumsatz, Getreide- und Brotpreise in Köln, 1368-1797 (Köln, 1976), which provides a detailed explanation of the source material.

All data on price and quantity are drawn from sales of the weekly market in Cologne, which served as a trans-shipment hub for grain. Prices are weekly averages and quantities refer to volume sold during an entire week. The weeks in each month are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. These data reflect, insofar as officials took care in recording them, the activities of a "free" market. The data from the seventeenth century should be used with special caution, because transactions from these years were often negligently recorded.

All prices are quoted in monies of account of Cologne, either in Gulden or Mark (1 Gulden = 4 Mark = 24 Albus = 288 Heller). For information about the bullion equivalents of these monies of account or their exchange rates, see the data set named Currency Exchanges (Metz).

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Month / Week / Year: 1743
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Wheat 115 Gulden 13.02 2/6/1743
Wheat 72 Gulden 12.97 3/6/1743
Wheat 106 Gulden 12.52 4/6/1743
Wheat 111 Gulden 12.31 1/7/1743
Wheat 72 Gulden 12.43 2/7/1743
Wheat 105 Gulden 12.09 3/7/1743
Wheat 155 Gulden 12.74 4/7/1743
Wheat 98 Gulden 13.02 5/7/1743
Wheat 131 Gulden 12.68 1/8/1743
Wheat 41 Gulden 12.72 2/8/1743
Wheat 142 Gulden 11.64 3/8/1743
Wheat 103 Gulden 11.82 4/8/1743
Wheat 98 Gulden 11.66 1/9/1743
Wheat 206 Gulden 12.04 2/9/1743
Wheat 88 Gulden 12.18 3/9/1743
Wheat 62 Gulden 12.05 4/9/1743
Wheat 63 Gulden 11.80 1/10/1743
Wheat 253 Gulden 12.20 2/10/1743
Wheat 176 Gulden 12.07 3/10/1743
Wheat 68 Gulden 11.61 4/10/1743
Wheat 46 Gulden 12.52 5/10/1743
Wheat 93 Gulden 11.64 1/11/1743
Wheat 108 Gulden 12.09 2/11/1743
Wheat 306 Gulden 12.39 3/11/1743
Month / Week / Year: 1744
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Barley 206 Gulden 5.96 5/1/1744
Barley 126 Gulden 5.98 1/2/1744
Barley 207 Gulden 6.11 2/2/1744
Barley 85 Gulden 6.06 3/2/1744
Barley 84 Gulden 6.16 4/2/1744
Barley 83 Gulden 6.16 1/3/1744
Barley 95 Gulden 6.15 2/3/1744
Barley 195 Gulden 6.00 3/3/1744
Barley 275 Gulden 6.03 4/3/1744
Barley 76 Gulden 5.26 1/4/1744
Barley 34 Gulden 5.44 2/4/1744
Barley 70 Gulden 5.17 3/4/1744
Barley 69 Gulden 5.06 4/4/1744
Barley 141 Gulden 5.00 5/4/1744
Barley 138 Gulden 4.92 1/5/1744
Barley 334 Gulden 4.97 2/5/1744
Barley 357 Gulden 4.86 3/5/1744
Barley 8 Gulden 4.75 4/5/1744
Barley 41 Gulden 4.66 2/6/1744
Barley 33 Gulden 4.50 3/6/1744
Barley 10 Gulden 4.58 4/6/1744
Barley 8 Gulden 4.50 1/7/1744
Barley 5 Gulden 4.00 2/7/1744
Barley 30 Gulden 4.50 3/7/1744
Barley 55 Gulden 4.46 2/8/1744
Barley 12 Gulden 4.31 3/8/1744