Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Forms of money

Paper Currency

Paper currency or another kind of fiat money. note that this only refers to indigenously produced paper currency. code absent if colonial money is used.   (See here)
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Variable Definition
Polity The Seshat Polity ID
Year(s) The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Tag [Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown]
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Variable Definition
paper_currency The absence or presence of paper currency for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Paper Currency Description   Edit
331
(Samanid Empire)
Full Year Range of Samanid Empire is assumed.
[819, 999]
absent
None
332
(Timurid Empire)
Full Year Range of Timurid Empire is assumed.
[1370, 1526]
unknown
None
333
(Yemen - Tahirid Dynasty)
Full Year Range of Yemen - Tahirid Dynasty is assumed.
[1454, 1517]
absent
None
334
(Early Modern Sierra Leone)
Full Year Range of Early Modern Sierra Leone is assumed.
[1650, 1896]
absent
None
335
(Plantagenet England)
Full Year Range of Plantagenet England is assumed.
[1154, 1485]
absent
None
336
(Freetown)
Full Year Range of Freetown is assumed.
[1787, 1808]
absent
None
337
(Buganda)
Full Year Range of Buganda is assumed.
[1700, 1894]
absent
None
338
(Toro)
Full Year Range of Toro is assumed.
[1830, 1896]
absent
None
339
(Buganda)
Full Year Range of Buganda is assumed.
[1450, 1699]
absent
None
340
(Kingdom of Nyinginya)
Full Year Range of Kingdom of Nyinginya is assumed.
[1650, 1897]
absent
None
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