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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: 1774
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Rye 460 Gulden 12.08 1/3/1774
Rye 630 Gulden 11.88 2/3/1774
Rye 592 Gulden 11.71 3/3/1774
Rye 439 Gulden 11.58 4/3/1774
Rye 443 Gulden 11.21 5/3/1774
Rye 379 Gulden 10.92 1/4/1774
Rye 622 Gulden 10.13 2/4/1774
Rye 839 Gulden 9.88 3/4/1774
Rye 1504 Gulden 9.92 4/4/1774
Rye 1069 Gulden 9.96 1/5/1774
Rye 948 Gulden 9.88 2/5/1774
Rye 1037 Gulden 9.79 3/5/1774
Rye 946 Gulden 9.92 4/5/1774
Rye 1050 Gulden 9.92 1/6/1774
Rye 1292 Gulden 9.96 2/6/1774
Rye 1432 Gulden 10.33 3/6/1774
Rye 1142 Gulden 11.38 4/6/1774
Rye 804 Gulden 12.00 5/6/1774
Rye 418 Gulden 11.17 1/7/1774
Rye 738 Gulden 10.58 2/7/1774
Rye 1030 Gulden 11.33 3/7/1774
Rye 545 Gulden 11.38 4/7/1774
Rye 508 Gulden 11.29 1/8/1774
Rye 584 Gulden 11.33 2/8/1774
Rye 859 Gulden 11.83 3/8/1774
Rye 496 Gulden 12.67 4/8/1774
Rye 499 Gulden 13.08 5/8/1774
Rye 399 Gulden 13.17 1/9/1774
Rye 373 Gulden 13.25 2/9/1774
Rye 570 Gulden 13.29 3/9/1774
Rye 712 Gulden 13.46 4/9/1774
Rye 382 Gulden 14.17 1/10/1774
Rye 619 Gulden 14.79 2/10/1774
Rye 674 Gulden 15.13 3/10/1774
Rye 502 Gulden 14.63 4/10/1774
Rye 550 Gulden 14.58 1/11/1774
Rye 1005 Gulden 14.92 2/11/1774
Rye 947 Gulden 15.63 3/11/1774
Rye 625 Gulden 16.29 4/11/1774
Rye 392 Gulden 16.50 5/11/1774
Rye 307 Gulden 16.50 1/12/1774
Rye 502 Gulden 16.29 2/12/1774
Rye 407 Gulden 16.08 3/12/1774
Rye 263 Gulden 15.83 4/12/1774
Month / Week / Year: 1775
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Barley 129 Gulden 9.21 1/1/1775
Barley 229 Gulden 9.04 2/1/1775
Barley 177 Gulden 8.88 3/1/1775
Barley 284 Gulden 8.75 4/1/1775
Barley 94 Gulden 8.79 1/2/1775
Barley 62 Gulden 8.92 2/2/1775