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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: 1701
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Wheat 46 Gulden 12.67 1/3/1701
Wheat 12 Gulden 12.83 2/3/1701
Wheat 61 Gulden 12.92 3/3/1701
Wheat 19 Gulden 13.50 4/3/1701
Wheat 17 Gulden 12.88 5/3/1701
Wheat 30 Gulden 12.54 1/4/1701
Wheat 27 Gulden 12.71 2/4/1701
Wheat 84 Gulden 12.50 3/4/1701
Wheat 243 Gulden 12.04 4/4/1701
Wheat 3139 Gulden 13.00 1/5/1701
Wheat 275 Gulden 14.04 2/5/1701
Wheat 16 Gulden 14.88 3/5/1701
Wheat 502 Gulden 14.58 4/5/1701
Wheat 1191 Gulden 15.04 1/6/1701
Wheat 86 Gulden 16.13 2/6/1701
Wheat 377 Gulden 14.83 3/6/1701
Wheat 69 Gulden 15.42 4/6/1701
Wheat 46 Gulden 14.92 5/6/1701
Wheat 32 Gulden 13.67 1/7/1701
Wheat 54 Gulden 13.88 2/7/1701
Wheat 33 Gulden 14.58 3/7/1701
Wheat 72 Gulden 14.21 4/7/1701
Wheat 81 Gulden 15.00 1/8/1701
Wheat 41 Gulden 14.67 2/8/1701
Wheat 38 Gulden 14.29 3/8/1701
Wheat 27 Gulden 15.08 4/8/1701
Wheat 79 Gulden 14.71 5/8/1701
Wheat 102 Gulden 14.46 1/9/1701
Wheat 38 Gulden 14.50 2/9/1701
Wheat 57 Gulden 13.00 3/9/1701
Wheat 60 Gulden 14.54 4/9/1701
Wheat 62 Gulden 14.71 1/10/1701
Wheat 32 Gulden 15.00 2/10/1701
Wheat 19 Gulden 14.96 3/10/1701
Wheat 31 Gulden 15.00 4/10/1701
Wheat 53 Gulden 14.42 1/11/1701
Wheat 39 Gulden 15.25 2/11/1701
Wheat 30 Gulden 15.33 3/11/1701
Wheat 37 Gulden 15.71 4/11/1701
Wheat 141 Gulden 14.00 5/11/1701
Wheat 48 Gulden 15.46 1/12/1701
Month / Week / Year: 1702
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Barley 73 Gulden 7.79 1/1/1702
Barley 50 Gulden 7.75 2/1/1702
Barley 165 Gulden 8.00 1/2/1702
Barley 137 Gulden 7.92 2/2/1702
Barley 40 Gulden 8.00 3/2/1702
Barley 150 Gulden 8.04 4/2/1702
Barley 156 Gulden 7.83 1/3/1702
Barley 151 Gulden 8.08 2/3/1702
Barley 255 Gulden 8.33 3/3/1702