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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: 1796
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Wheat 38 Gulden 30.00 5/11/1796
Wheat 46 Gulden 30.63 1/12/1796
Wheat 145 Gulden 30.79 2/12/1796
Wheat 53 Gulden 30.25 3/12/1796
Wheat 53 Gulden 30.00 4/12/1796
Barley 105 Gulden 20.58 1/1/1796
Barley 82 Gulden 21.46 2/1/1796
Barley 12 Gulden 21.50 3/1/1796
Barley 16 Gulden 22.00 4/1/1796
Barley 18 Gulden 21.00 2/2/1796
Barley 70 Gulden 21.42 3/2/1796
Barley 63 Gulden 21.46 1/3/1796
Barley 66 Gulden 21.04 2/3/1796
Barley 74 Gulden 21.25 4/3/1796
Barley 43 Gulden 21.50 5/3/1796
Barley 46 Gulden 19.92 1/4/1796
Barley 25 Gulden 21.00 2/4/1796
Barley 36 Gulden 21.00 4/4/1796
Barley 25 Gulden 21.17 1/5/1796
Barley 125 Gulden 21.58 2/5/1796
Barley 38 Gulden 21.88 3/5/1796
Barley 29 Gulden 22.13 4/5/1796
Barley 18 Gulden 21.50 1/6/1796
Barley 14 Gulden 23.50 2/6/1796
Barley 8 Gulden 21.50 5/6/1796
Barley 8 Gulden 16.67 4/7/1796
Barley 35 Gulden 15.04 1/8/1796
Barley 37 Gulden 14.75 2/8/1796
Barley 43 Gulden 14.46 3/8/1796
Barley 94 Gulden 13.83 4/8/1796
Barley 55 Gulden 14.71 5/8/1796
Barley 75 Gulden 15.04 1/9/1796
Barley 88 Gulden 15.29 2/9/1796
Barley 58 Gulden 15.75 3/9/1796
Barley 84 Gulden 16.75 4/9/1796
Barley 29 Gulden 16.67 1/10/1796
Barley 64 Gulden 18.92 2/10/1796
Barley 47 Gulden 18.42 3/10/1796
Barley 137 Gulden 18.54 4/10/1796
Barley 7 Gulden 18.17 1/11/1796
Barley 117 Gulden 18.17 2/11/1796
Barley 94 Gulden 17.96 3/11/1796
Barley 173 Gulden 17.46 4/11/1796
Barley 35 Gulden 17.17 5/11/1796
Barley 91 Gulden 17.08 1/12/1796
Barley 78 Gulden 17.08 2/12/1796
Barley 73 Gulden 16.88 3/12/1796
Barley 66 Gulden 16.63 4/12/1796
Oats 14 Gulden 10.50 2/3/1796
Oats 19 Gulden 10.67 4/4/1796