Macai's List of 2,500 Guilders

There's a famous passage in Macai's account where he lists all of the items, all of the goods that were exchanged for one single viceroy bulb. It includes two lasts of wheat, four lasts of rye, four fat oxen, eight fat swine, twelve fat sheep and 2 hogs heads of wine. But my main point about that particular list is A, it wasn't actually traded. Those things weren't traded. All that they were trying to say was this is what you could buy for that much money. Now the price of 2,500 gilders, you could pay that for a bulb. I have seen prices like that and higher. However, there