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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: 1776
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Oats 26 Gulden 5.29 3/2/1776
Oats 28 Gulden 5.38 4/2/1776
Oats 74 Gulden 5.33 1/3/1776
Oats 19 Gulden 5.29 3/3/1776
Oats 76 Gulden 5.46 1/4/1776
Oats 12 Gulden 5.33 2/4/1776
Oats 6 Gulden 5.33 4/4/1776
Oats 89 Gulden 5.29 1/5/1776
Oats 57 Gulden 4.88 2/5/1776
Oats 59 Gulden 5.38 3/5/1776
Oats 27 Gulden 4.58 4/5/1776
Oats 51 Gulden 5.17 5/5/1776
Oats 50 Gulden 5.17 2/6/1776
Oats 36 Gulden 4.92 1/7/1776
Oats 47 Gulden 5.50 3/7/1776
Oats 105 Gulden 5.17 5/7/1776
Oats 14 Gulden 5.00 2/8/1776
Oats 58 Gulden 5.13 3/8/1776
Oats 20 Gulden 5.00 4/8/1776
Oats 46 Gulden 5.17 2/9/1776
Oats 55 Gulden 4.75 3/9/1776
Oats 29 Gulden 4.83 4/9/1776
Oats 18 Gulden 5.17 1/10/1776
Oats 22 Gulden 4.71 2/10/1776
Oats 32 Gulden 4.42 3/10/1776
Oats 20 Gulden 5.00 4/10/1776
Oats 36 Gulden 5.00 5/10/1776
Oats 3 Gulden 4.67 1/11/1776
Oats 76 Gulden 4.58 2/11/1776
Oats 69 Gulden 5.08 3/11/1776
Oats 4 Gulden 5.25 4/11/1776
Oats 22 Gulden 4.92 1/12/1776
Oats 42 Gulden 4.83 2/12/1776
Oats 4 Gulden 5.17 4/12/1776
Rye 206 Gulden 11.79 1/1/1776
Rye 460 Gulden 11.71 2/1/1776
Rye 681 Gulden 11.75 3/1/1776
Rye 448 Gulden 11.79 4/1/1776
Rye 303 Gulden 11.88 5/1/1776
Rye 210 Gulden 12.29 1/2/1776
Rye 239 Gulden 12.50 2/2/1776
Rye 147 Gulden 12.46 3/2/1776
Rye 144 Gulden 12.25 4/2/1776
Rye 279 Gulden 12.00 1/3/1776
Rye 334 Gulden 11.96 2/3/1776
Rye 450 Gulden 11.75 3/3/1776
Rye 296 Gulden 11.75 4/3/1776
Rye 1067 Gulden 11.63 1/4/1776
Rye 512 Gulden 11.71 2/4/1776
Rye 581 Gulden 11.58 3/4/1776