| Date. | The Cologne Mark coined into | Of Alloy | Equivalent Value (as expressed in the 20-Florin Standard). | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pieces. | Loth. | Qr. | Kreutzers. | Pfennige. | |
| 1226 (Gros Tournois of France) | 55 1⁄10 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 0 216⁄551 |
| 1296 | 63 1⁄2 | 15 | 0 | 17 | 2 110⁄127 |
| 1309 | 63 1⁄2 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 2 18⁄127 |
| 1324 (Meissen) | 64 1⁄2 | 15 | 0 | 17 | 1 33⁄48 |
| 1341 | 78 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 2 6⁄13 |
| 1350 | 91 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 2 14⁄91 |
| 1364 | 74 1⁄2 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 36⁄149 |
| 1378 | 70 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 1 1⁄14 |
| 1380 | 72 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 2 1⁄6 |
| — (Meissen) | 91 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 0 24⁄91 |
| 1390 | 85 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 3 5⁄17 |
| — (Meissen) | 90 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 1407 | 72 40⁄131 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 1 57⁄296 |
| 1412 | 82 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 26⁄41 |
| 1444 | 88 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 2 43⁄132 |
| — | 160 | 16 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 1459 | 101 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 34⁄101 |
| 1470 | 100 20⁄307 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 507⁄512 |
| 1490 | 103 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 58⁄103 |
TABLE OF THE MOVEMENT OF GOLD & SILVER IN GERMANY 1300-1500.
THE MOVEMENT OF GOLD IN GERMANY, 1300-1500, ILLUSTRATED BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE GOLD GULDEN (RHEINISCHE GULDEN).
| Date. | Cologne Mark coined into | Alloy. | Equivalent Value (as expressed in the 20-Florin Standard). | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pieces. | Carats. | Grains. | Florins. | Kreutzers. | Pfennige. | |
| 1252 (Florentine Florin). | 44 3⁄8 | 24 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 3 405⁄2911 |
| 1371 | 66 | 23 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 434⁄781 |
| 1386 | 66 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 85⁄781 |
| 1409 | 66 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 55 | 3 517⁄781 |
| 1419 | 64 1⁄2 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 28 | 1 2851⁄3053 |
| 1428 | 68 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 3 18⁄1207 |
| 1442 | 72 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 14⁄213 |
| 1477 | 69 1⁄3 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 3104⁄15194 |
FRANCE.
In France during this same period the ratio of gold to silver was changed in a single century more than a hundred and fifty times, and with a roughness that is quite inconceivable to the modern mind. To take a period of ten years for example:—
| In | 1303 | the ratio was | 10.26 |
| " | 1305 | " | 15.90 |
| " | 1308 | " | 14.46 |
| " | 1310 | " | 15.64 |
| " | 1311 | " | 19.55 |
| " | 1313 | " | 14.37 |