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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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Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Rye 156 Gulden 8.88 4/9/1612
Rye 35 Gulden 9.08 1/10/1612
Rye 145 Gulden 8.95 2/10/1612
Rye 197 Gulden 9.22 3/10/1612
Rye 136 Gulden 9.25 4/10/1612
Rye 142 Gulden 9.28 5/10/1612
Rye 131 Gulden 9.33 1/11/1612
Rye 115 Gulden 9.38 2/11/1612
Rye 75 Gulden 9.29 3/11/1612
Rye 127 Gulden 9.46 4/11/1612
Rye 118 Gulden 9.54 1/12/1612
Rye 136 Gulden 9.40 2/12/1612
Rye 51 Gulden 9.27 3/12/1612
Rye 12 Gulden 9.25 4/12/1612
Wheat 32 Gulden 12.00 1/1/1612
Wheat 18 Gulden 12.08 2/1/1612
Wheat 6 Gulden 12.00 3/1/1612
Wheat 38 Gulden 12.25 4/1/1612
Wheat 53 Gulden 12.17 1/2/1612
Wheat 119 Gulden 12.17 2/2/1612
Wheat 100 Gulden 12.18 3/2/1612
Wheat 183 Gulden 12.18 4/2/1612
Wheat 178 Gulden 12.33 1/3/1612
Wheat 73 Gulden 12.38 2/3/1612
Wheat 334 Gulden 12.67 3/3/1612
Wheat 179 Gulden 12.30 4/3/1612
Wheat 101 Gulden 12.76 1/4/1612
Wheat 307 Gulden 12.38 2/4/1612
Wheat 85 Gulden 12.50 4/4/1612
Wheat 81 Gulden 12.46 1/5/1612
Wheat 122 Gulden 12.23 2/5/1612
Wheat 144 Gulden 12.38 3/5/1612
Wheat 66 Gulden 12.43 4/5/1612
Wheat 164 Gulden 12.31 5/5/1612
Wheat 13 Gulden 12.63 3/6/1612
Wheat 17 Gulden 14.00 4/6/1612
Wheat 24 Gulden 14.38 1/7/1612
Wheat 12 Gulden 13.83 4/7/1612
Wheat 15 Gulden 15.00 1/8/1612
Wheat 11 Gulden 14.04 2/8/1612
Wheat 80 Gulden 12.41 3/8/1612
Wheat 131 Gulden 10.88 4/8/1612
Wheat 90 Gulden 10.39 5/8/1612
Wheat 82 Gulden 10.39 1/9/1612
Wheat 20 Gulden 10.13 2/9/1612
Wheat 40 Gulden 10.32 3/9/1612
Wheat 146 Gulden 10.38 4/9/1612
Wheat 103 Gulden 10.30 1/10/1612
Wheat 191 Gulden 10.35 2/10/1612
Wheat 168 Gulden 10.38 3/10/1612