Currency Exchange Rate in 1799: Cologne

Cologne, Mainz, Triers, Liege, Munich, Munster, Paderborn, etc.

Note: This table shows the exchange rate in English Pound Sterling.

Coin	Equivalent	£	Shillings	Pence
Dute	-	0	0	1/80
Cruitzer	3 Dutes	0	0	1/40
Albus	2 Cruitzers	0	0	11/40
Stiver	8 Dutes	0	0	7/10
Plapart	3 Stivers	0	0	2 1/10
Copstuck	4 Plaparts	0	0	8 2/5
Guilder	40 Stivers	0	2	4
Hard Dollar	2 Guilders	0	4	8
Ducat	4 Guilders	0	9	4

Notes:

1. Imaginary money use in accounting, signifying a fictitious piece which did not exist, but was used to represent other pieces.

Source:

Guthrie, William. A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar and Present State of the several Kingdoms of the World. Montrose, 1799. P. 1034

Placed on the Napoleon Series: July 2004

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