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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: 1675
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Rye 1224 Gulden 13.08 2/5/1675
Month / Week / Year: 1700
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Rye 1226 Gulden 8.88 1/8/1700
Rye 1249 Gulden 10.25 4/5/1700
Month / Week / Year: 1554
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Rye 1226 Mark 10.83 2/10/1554
Month / Week / Year: 1677
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Rye 1226 Gulden 9.79 3/6/1677
Rye 1247 Gulden 9.75 4/6/1677
Month / Week / Year: 1579
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Rye 1227 Mark 23.33 3/12/1579
Month / Week / Year: 1556
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Rye 1230 Mark 22.00 1/12/1556
Month / Week / Year: 1561
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Rye 1230 Mark 12.00 5/1/1561
Month / Week / Year: 1572
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Rye 1230 Mark 26.17 3/10/1572
Month / Week / Year: 1537
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Rye 1231 Mark 6.00 3/11/1537
Month / Week / Year: 1531
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Rye 1232 Mark 10.00 2/11/1531
Month / Week / Year: 1548
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Wheat 1233 Mark 9.00 3/11/1548
Rye 1239 Mark 7.17 3/11/1548
Month / Week / Year: 1748
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Rye 1234 Gulden 8.34 5/7/1748
Month / Week / Year: 1729
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Rye 1234 Gulden 10.58 1/6/1729
Month / Week / Year: 1546
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Rye 1234 Mark 11.00 2/11/1546
Rye 1268 Mark 11.00 1/12/1546
Month / Week / Year: 1701
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Rye 1239 Gulden 8.13 3/2/1701
Rye 1264 Gulden 10.25 4/8/1701
Month / Week / Year: 1560
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Rye 1240 Mark 11.00 1/3/1560
Month / Week / Year: 1776
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Rye 1240 Gulden 10.92 4/6/1776
Month / Week / Year: 1779
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Rye 1240 Gulden 10.83 2/6/1779
Month / Week / Year: 1718
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Rye 1241 Gulden 8.08 1/7/1718
Month / Week / Year: 1555
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Rye 1243 Mark 14.50 4/10/1555
Month / Week / Year: 1559
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Rye 1244 Mark 11.00 4/10/1559
Month / Week / Year: 1749
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Rye 1245 Gulden 8.84 3/5/1749
Month / Week / Year: 1534
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Rye 1246 Mark 6.17 2/10/1534
Month / Week / Year: 1545
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Rye 1248 Mark 10.67 1/12/1545
Month / Week / Year: 1710
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Rye 1252 Gulden 11.13 1/7/1710
Rye 1267 Gulden 11.79 2/5/1710
Month / Week / Year: 1568
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Rye 1252 Mark 14.50 2/10/1568
Rye 1253 Mark 14.50 1/10/1568
Month / Week / Year: 1698
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Rye 1254 Gulden 12.54 1/7/1698
Month / Week / Year: 1775
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Rye 1254 Gulden 13.92 3/7/1775
Month / Week / Year: 1571
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Rye 1254 Mark 32.00 1/11/1571
Month / Week / Year: 1539
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Rye 1256 Mark 10.33 4/11/1539
Month / Week / Year: 1724
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Rye 1258 Gulden 13.13 4/11/1724
Month / Week / Year: 1563
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Rye 1258 Mark 16.67 4/11/1563
Rye 1263 Mark 17.00 2/11/1563
Month / Week / Year: 1578
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Rye 1258 Mark 22.33 3/2/1578
Month / Week / Year: 1566
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Rye 1261 Mark 18.33 2/10/1566
Month / Week / Year: 1692
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Rye 1262 Gulden 9.17 1/8/1692
Month / Week / Year: 1542
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Rye 1263 Mark 9.83 3/11/1542
Month / Week / Year: 1720
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Rye 1263 Gulden 11.00 3/7/1720
Month / Week / Year: 1557
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Rye 1265 Mark 17.00 2/7/1557
Month / Week / Year: 1577
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Rye 1265 Mark 24.17 2/12/1577
Month / Week / Year: 1738
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Rye 1268 Gulden 7.41 4/6/1738
Month / Week / Year: 1777
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Rye 1270 Gulden 9.21 2/7/1777
Month / Week / Year: 1741
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Rye 1272 Gulden 10.01 4/4/1741