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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: 1726
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Wheat 34 Gulden 13.00 4/7/1726
Wheat 96 Gulden 13.33 5/7/1726
Wheat 110 Gulden 13.29 1/8/1726
Wheat 62 Gulden 13.71 2/8/1726
Wheat 67 Gulden 13.75 3/8/1726
Wheat 13 Gulden 13.54 4/8/1726
Wheat 18 Gulden 13.67 1/9/1726
Wheat 32 Gulden 14.00 2/9/1726
Wheat 9 Gulden 14.25 3/9/1726
Wheat 42 Gulden 12.92 4/9/1726
Wheat 25 Gulden 13.63 1/10/1726
Wheat 17 Gulden 12.00 2/10/1726
Wheat 46 Gulden 13.50 3/10/1726
Wheat 36 Gulden 13.29 4/10/1726
Wheat 103 Gulden 13.33 5/10/1726
Wheat 12 Gulden 13.00 1/11/1726
Wheat 9 Gulden 13.00 2/11/1726
Wheat 9 Gulden 13.42 3/11/1726
Wheat 40 Gulden 13.08 4/11/1726
Wheat 7 Gulden 13.00 1/12/1726
Wheat 18 Gulden 13.00 2/12/1726
Month / Week / Year: 1727
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Wheat 9 Gulden 13.33 1/1/1727
Wheat 7 Gulden 13.33 4/1/1727
Wheat 122 Gulden 12.88 5/1/1727
Wheat 41 Gulden 12.25 1/2/1727
Wheat 12 Gulden 12.50 2/2/1727
Wheat 21 Gulden 13.00 3/2/1727
Wheat 97 Gulden 12.83 4/2/1727
Wheat 29 Gulden 12.54 1/3/1727
Wheat 53 Gulden 12.33 2/3/1727
Wheat 57 Gulden 12.42 3/3/1727
Wheat 33 Gulden 12.58 4/3/1727
Wheat 28 Gulden 12.58 1/4/1727
Wheat 24 Gulden 12.79 2/4/1727
Wheat 125 Gulden 12.63 3/4/1727
Wheat 108 Gulden 12.83 4/4/1727
Wheat 17 Gulden 12.67 5/4/1727
Wheat 221 Gulden 12.83 1/5/1727
Wheat 37 Gulden 11.92 2/5/1727
Wheat 125 Gulden 11.21 3/5/1727
Wheat 58 Gulden 11.46 4/5/1727
Wheat 115 Gulden 11.08 1/6/1727
Wheat 124 Gulden 11.29 2/6/1727
Wheat 85 Gulden 10.67 3/6/1727
Wheat 130 Gulden 11.04 4/6/1727
Wheat 79 Gulden 11.13 1/7/1727
Wheat 96 Gulden 11.33 2/7/1727
Wheat 93 Gulden 11.42 3/7/1727
Wheat 24 Gulden 11.13 4/7/1727
Wheat 96 Gulden 11.54 5/7/1727