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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: 1566
Product Number of Malters Sold Sort descending Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Rye 1193 Mark 18.00 3/10/1566
Month / Week / Year: 1703
Product Number of Malters Sold Sort descending Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Rye 1194 Gulden 7.29 3/6/1703
Rye 1207 Gulden 7.00 2/6/1703
Rye 1221 Gulden 7.38 2/9/1703
Month / Week / Year: 1707
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Rye 1194 Gulden 8.00 5/8/1707
Month / Week / Year: 1575
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Rye 1194 Mark 19.50 4/10/1575
Month / Week / Year: 1573
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Rye 1195 Mark 31.33 3/11/1573
Month / Week / Year: 1737
Product Number of Malters Sold Sort descending Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Rye 1195 Gulden 6.81 2/9/1737
Rye 1207 Gulden 6.41 1/6/1737
Month / Week / Year: 1537
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Rye 1196 Mark 6.00 1/11/1537
Month / Week / Year: 1768
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Rye 1196 Gulden 11.91 2/11/1768
Month / Week / Year: 1696
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Rye 1197 Gulden 7.00 1/4/1696
Rye 1207 Gulden 6.96 3/6/1696
Month / Week / Year: 1557
Product Number of Malters Sold Sort descending Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Rye 1197 Mark 12.50 2/10/1557
Rye 1215 Mark 32.00 3/6/1557
Rye 1215 Mark 32.00 4/6/1557
Month / Week / Year: 1563
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Rye 1197 Mark 16.83 4/10/1563
Month / Week / Year: 1543
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Rye 1199 Mark 10.00 2/8/1543
Wheat 1209 Mark 12.33 3/10/1543
Month / Week / Year: 1710
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Rye 1200 Gulden 11.96 1/5/1710
Rye 1212 Gulden 11.25 4/6/1710
Month / Week / Year: 1572
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Rye 1200 Mark 24.67 1/10/1572
Month / Week / Year: 1561
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Rye 1201 Mark 11.83 4/6/1561
Rye 1211 Mark 12.00 3/1/1561
Month / Week / Year: 1559
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Rye 1202 Mark 11.00 2/11/1559
Rye 1202 Mark 11.00 3/11/1559
Month / Week / Year: 1779
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Rye 1203 Gulden 12.00 3/5/1779
Month / Week / Year: 1582
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Rye 1204 Mark 22.50 1/12/1582
Month / Week / Year: 1747
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Rye 1205 Gulden 9.38 5/8/1747
Rye 1209 Gulden 8.26 4/6/1747
Month / Week / Year: 1539
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Rye 1206 Mark 10.83 4/10/1539
Rye 1215 Mark 10.67 5/10/1539
Rye 1215 Mark 10.67 1/11/1539
Month / Week / Year: 1745
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Rye 1207 Gulden 7.94 4/11/1745
Month / Week / Year: 1741
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Rye 1207 Gulden 10.51 2/8/1741
Month / Week / Year: 1719
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Rye 1207 Gulden 9.17 3/8/1719
Month / Week / Year: 1697
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Rye 1209 Gulden 11.38 4/6/1697
Month / Week / Year: 1783
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Rye 1210 Gulden 10.92 4/6/1783
Month / Week / Year: 1544
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Wheat 1211 Mark 13.67 3/11/1544
Month / Week / Year: 1736
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Rye 1215 Gulden 6.76 4/5/1736
Month / Week / Year: 1565
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Rye 1215 Mark 12.33 1/2/1565
Month / Week / Year: 1551
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Rye 1216 Mark 10.50 4/1/1551
Month / Week / Year: 1532
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Rye 1219 Mark 6.00 1/12/1532
Rye 1220 Mark 6.00 2/12/1532
Month / Week / Year: 1749
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Rye 1219 Gulden 11.21 2/7/1749
Month / Week / Year: 1718
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Rye 1221 Gulden 8.08 3/6/1718
Month / Week / Year: 1550
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Rye 1222 Mark 9.50 1/8/1550
Month / Week / Year: 1549
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Rye 1223 Mark 8.83 2/12/1549
Month / Week / Year: 1675
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Rye 1224 Gulden 13.08 2/5/1675
Month / Week / Year: 1536
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Rye 1224 Mark 5.50 2/12/1536