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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: 1531
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Rye 346 Mark 9.42 1/8/1531
Rye 281 Mark 8.33 2/8/1531
Rye 357 Mark 7.50 3/8/1531
Rye 279 Mark 8.00 4/8/1531
Rye 350 Mark 8.00 5/8/1531
Rye 102 Mark 8.17 1/9/1531
Rye 141 Mark 8.17 2/9/1531
Rye 232 Mark 8.17 3/9/1531
Rye 306 Mark 8.33 4/9/1531
Rye 612 Mark 9.00 1/10/1531
Rye 875 Mark 9.33 2/10/1531
Rye 967 Mark 9.67 3/10/1531
Rye 927 Mark 10.00 4/10/1531
Rye 755 Mark 10.00 1/11/1531
Rye 1232 Mark 10.00 2/11/1531
Rye 879 Mark 10.17 3/11/1531
Rye 532 Mark 10.17 4/11/1531
Rye 704 Mark 10.17 5/11/1531
Rye 536 Mark 10.17 1/12/1531
Rye 926 Mark 10.17 2/12/1531
Rye 375 Mark 10.17 3/12/1531
Rye 375 Mark 10.17 4/12/1531
Wheat 88 Mark 13.00 1/7/1531
Wheat 72 Mark 13.00 2/7/1531
Wheat 134 Mark 12.50 3/7/1531
Wheat 139 Mark 12.00 4/7/1531
Wheat 686 Mark 10.50 1/8/1531
Wheat 400 Mark 9.50 2/8/1531
Wheat 278 Mark 9.50 3/8/1531
Wheat 249 Mark 9.50 4/8/1531
Wheat 265 Mark 10.00 5/8/1531
Wheat 266 Mark 10.17 1/9/1531
Wheat 347 Mark 10.17 2/9/1531
Wheat 237 Mark 10.17 3/9/1531
Wheat 456 Mark 10.50 4/9/1531
Wheat 660 Mark 11.00 1/10/1531
Wheat 523 Mark 11.33 2/10/1531
Wheat 528 Mark 11.67 3/10/1531
Wheat 560 Mark 12.00 4/10/1531
Wheat 546 Mark 11.67 1/11/1531
Wheat 454 Mark 11.67 2/11/1531
Wheat 512 Mark 12.00 3/11/1531
Wheat 382 Mark 12.00 4/11/1531
Wheat 777 Mark 12.00 5/11/1531
Wheat 331 Mark 12.00 1/12/1531
Wheat 550 Mark 12.00 2/12/1531
Wheat 309 Mark 12.00 3/12/1531
Wheat 310 Mark 12.00 4/12/1531
Month / Week / Year: 1532
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Barley 152 Mark 6.83 1/1/1532
Barley 152 Mark 6.83 2/1/1532