Monthly Wheat Prices in Cologne, 1550-1700

The datafile: spreadsheet (.xls, 36 Kb)

This datafile was used in:
Nicholas Poynder, Grain storage in theory and history, .(pdf, 40 Kb). Paper presented at the Third Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Lisbon, October 29-30 (1999).

Other datafile relating to this paper:
Monthly Grain Prices at Les Halles, Paris 1549-1698
Monthly grain prices in England, 1270-1955
Monthly grain prices in Siena, 1550-1694

The data on Cologne, used in above paper, were obtained from:
D. Ebeling and F. Irsigler, Mitteilungen aus dem stadtarchiv von Köln: 1368-1797, Cologne 1976, p.539-614.
The data are given in Albus per malter, where:
1 Gulden = 4 Mark = 24 Albus = 288 Heller
                  1 Mark =   6 Albus =   72 Heller
                                    1 Albus =   12 Heller
and 1 malter wheat is ca. 164 litre.

For people wanting to convert these prices in grams of silver, we provide the grams of silver per Albus in the table below.

 *=Grams of silver per Albus
Year	Grams *		Year	Grams	 	Year	Grams
1550	0.543		1600	0.288		1650	0.256
1551	0.541		1601	0.286		1651	0.256
1552	0.538		1602	0.283		1652	0.257
1553	0.535		1603	0.281		1653	0.257
1554	0.529		1604	0.281		1654	0.257
1555	0.523		1605	0.280		1655	0.257
1556	0.516		1606	0.280		1656	0.258
1557	0.510		1607	0.279		1657	0.258
1558	0.504		1608	0.279		1658	0.258
1559	0.498		1609	0.279		1659	0.258
1560	0.492		1610	0.278		1660	0.249
1561	0.486		1611	0.278		1661	0.240
1562	0.479		1612	0.278		1662	0.241
1563	0.473		1613	0.277		1663	0.242
1564	0.467		1614	0.277		1664	0.243
1565	0.461		1615	0.276		1665	0.244
1566	0.499(0.472)	1616	0.276		1666	0.246
1567	0.489		1617	0.274		1667	0.247
1568	0.480		1618	0.272		1668	0.248
1569	0.470		1619	0.270		1669	0.249
1570	0.461		1620	0.268		1670	0.250
1571	0.451		1621	0.265		1671	0.251
1572	0.442		1622	0.263		1672	0.252
1573	0.432		1623	0.261		1673	0.253
1574	0.423		1624	0.259		1674	0.254
1575	0.413		1625	0.284		1675	0.255
1576	0.404		1626	0.308		1676	0.257
1577	0.394		1627	0.280		1677	0.258
1578	0.385		1628	0.251		1678	0.259
1579	0.375		1629	0.251		1679	0.260
1580	0.372		1630	0.252		1680	0.261
1581	0.373		1631	0.252		1681	0.260
1582	0.375		1632	0.252		1682	0.260
1583	0.326		1633	0.252		1683	0.259
1584	0.324		1634	0.253		1684	0.258
1585	0.322		1635	0.253		1685	0.257
1586	0.319		1636	0.253		1686	0.257
1587	0.317		1637	0.253		1687	0.256
1588	0.315		1638	0.253		1688	0.255
1589	0.313		1639	0.254		1689	0.254
1590	0.310		1640	0.254		1690	0.254
1591	0.308		1641	0.254		1691	0.253
1592	0.306		1642	0.254		1692	0.252
1593	0.304		1643	0.255		1693	0.251
1594	0.301		1644	0.255		1694	0.251
1595	0.299		1645	0.255		1695	0.250
1596	0.297		1646	0.255		1696	0.249
1597	0.295		1647	0.256		1697	0.248
1598	0.292		1648	0.256		1698	0.248
1599	0.290		1649	0.256		1699	0.247
						1700	0.246
 

The silver values were obtained from: Robert C. Allen and Richard W. Unger, with the assistance of Shannon Parker and Stephanie McWhinnie, Allen - Unger Database, European Commodity Prices 1260-1914
In this database they were collected from: Natalis de Wailly, Memoire sur les variations de la livre Tournois depuis le regne de Saint Louis jusqu'a l'etablissmenet de la monnaie decimale Paris 1857
NB. Where there are changes within the year the amount of silver in the coin on 1 July is used for the year.