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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: 1545
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Wheat 339 Mark 17.00 4/12/1545
Wheat 339 Mark 17.00 5/12/1545
Month / Week / Year: 1546
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Barley 304 Mark 9.00 1/1/1546
Barley 380 Mark 9.00 2/1/1546
Barley 260 Mark 9.00 3/1/1546
Barley 321 Mark 9.00 4/1/1546
Barley 407 Mark 9.17 1/2/1546
Barley 817 Mark 9.17 2/2/1546
Barley 646 Mark 9.17 3/2/1546
Barley 430 Mark 9.17 4/2/1546
Barley 137 Mark 9.33 1/3/1546
Barley 138 Mark 9.33 2/3/1546
Barley 33 Mark 9.33 3/3/1546
Barley 25 Mark 9.50 4/3/1546
Barley 45 Mark 9.50 5/3/1546
Barley 20 Mark 10.00 1/4/1546
Barley 57 Mark 10.67 2/4/1546
Barley 57 Mark 10.67 3/4/1546
Barley 57 Mark 10.67 4/4/1546
Barley 58 Mark 10.67 1/5/1546
Barley 58 Mark 10.67 2/5/1546
Barley 47 Mark 12.00 3/5/1546
Barley 4 Mark 12.00 4/5/1546
Barley 5 Mark 12.00 1/6/1546
Barley 21 Mark 12.17 2/6/1546
Barley 22 Mark 12.17 3/6/1546
Barley 22 Mark 12.00 4/6/1546
Barley 12 Mark 12.00 5/6/1546
Barley 14 Mark 9.50 2/7/1546
Barley 54 Mark 9.50 3/7/1546
Barley 118 Mark 10.00 4/7/1546
Barley 60 Mark 10.00 1/8/1546
Barley 147 Mark 10.00 2/8/1546
Barley 173 Mark 8.50 3/8/1546
Barley 585 Mark 9.83 4/8/1546
Barley 401 Mark 9.33 1/9/1546
Barley 248 Mark 9.83 2/9/1546
Barley 260 Mark 10.00 3/9/1546
Barley 289 Mark 10.00 4/9/1546
Barley 451 Mark 10.00 5/9/1546
Barley 928 Mark 10.00 1/10/1546
Barley 1013 Mark 10.00 2/10/1546
Barley 740 Mark 10.00 3/10/1546
Barley 34 Mark 10.00 4/10/1546
Barley 319 Mark 10.00 1/11/1546
Barley 454 Mark 10.00 2/11/1546
Barley 225 Mark 10.00 3/11/1546
Barley 451 Mark 9.67 4/11/1546
Barley 510 Mark 9.67 1/12/1546
Barley 491 Mark 9.33 2/12/1546