Chapter 7 Historical exchange rate data (pdf, 434 kB), is written by Jan T. Klovland and gives an overview of sources and data for exchange rates quoted on the Christiania Stock Exchange since 1819.

Monthly quotations for the most important exchange rates are recorded over the period from 1819.

In the first decades the most active markets were generally the long bill of exchange (time bills). At the end of the 1850s the prices of short bills of exchange, which were payable at sight (a vista), became the standard market quotation for bills in London and Hamburg.

Updates and revisions

The printed book provides detailed documentation of the historical database as of June 2004. Updates and revisions are listed below.

February 2010
Table A2 Monthly averages of daily quotations