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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: 1778
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Rye 483 Gulden 12.29 1/9/1778
Rye 271 Gulden 12.71 2/9/1778
Rye 272 Gulden 12.71 3/9/1778
Rye 245 Gulden 12.42 4/9/1778
Rye 134 Gulden 12.46 5/9/1778
Rye 484 Gulden 12.17 1/10/1778
Rye 333 Gulden 12.38 2/10/1778
Rye 183 Gulden 12.54 3/10/1778
Rye 372 Gulden 12.58 4/10/1778
Rye 724 Gulden 12.46 1/11/1778
Rye 839 Gulden 12.83 2/11/1778
Rye 460 Gulden 12.96 3/11/1778
Rye 628 Gulden 13.33 4/11/1778
Rye 321 Gulden 13.63 1/12/1778
Rye 351 Gulden 13.92 2/12/1778
Rye 340 Gulden 14.13 3/12/1778
Rye 230 Gulden 14.46 4/12/1778
Rye 128 Gulden 14.58 5/12/1778
Month / Week / Year: 1779
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Barley 33 Gulden 9.75 1/1/1779
Barley 72 Gulden 9.75 2/1/1779
Barley 158 Gulden 9.92 3/1/1779
Barley 247 Gulden 10.08 4/1/1779
Barley 76 Gulden 10.38 1/2/1779
Barley 37 Gulden 10.50 2/2/1779
Barley 2 Gulden 10.00 3/2/1779
Barley 51 Gulden 9.79 4/2/1779
Barley 42 Gulden 9.54 1/3/1779
Barley 33 Gulden 9.29 2/3/1779
Barley 118 Gulden 9.13 4/3/1779
Barley 115 Gulden 9.13 5/3/1779
Barley 13 Gulden 8.83 1/4/1779
Barley 82 Gulden 9.04 2/4/1779
Barley 135 Gulden 9.04 3/4/1779
Barley 256 Gulden 9.04 4/4/1779
Barley 100 Gulden 8.96 1/5/1779
Barley 7 Gulden 9.00 2/5/1779
Barley 43 Gulden 8.79 3/5/1779
Barley 64 Gulden 8.38 4/5/1779
Barley 37 Gulden 8.21 1/6/1779
Barley 33 Gulden 8.00 2/6/1779
Barley 8 Gulden 8.00 4/6/1779
Barley 9 Gulden 7.75 5/6/1779
Barley 38 Gulden 7.08 1/7/1779
Barley 24 Gulden 7.00 2/7/1779
Barley 16 Gulden 6.46 1/8/1779
Barley 24 Gulden 6.58 2/8/1779
Barley 16 Gulden 5.75 4/8/1779
Barley 55 Gulden 6.58 1/9/1779
Barley 44 Gulden 6.67 2/9/1779
Barley 117 Gulden 6.63 3/9/1779