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
341
(Ndorwa)
Full Year Range of Ndorwa is assumed.
[1700, 1800]
absent
None
342
(Burundi)
Full Year Range of Burundi is assumed.
[1680, 1903]
absent
None
343
(Mubari)
Full Year Range of Mubari is assumed.
[-10000, 2000]
absent
None
344
(Gisaka)
Full Year Range of Gisaka is assumed.
[1700, 1867]
absent
None
345
(Bugesera)
Full Year Range of Bugesera is assumed.
[1700, 1799]
absent
None
346
(Dutch Empire)
Full Year Range of Dutch Empire is assumed.
[1648, 1795]
absent
None
347
(Lombard Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Lombard Kingdom is assumed.
[568, 774]
absent
None
348
(Buhaya)
Full Year Range of Buhaya is assumed.
[-10000, 2000]
absent
None
349
(Kaabu)
Full Year Range of Kaabu is assumed.
[1500, 1867]
absent
None
350
(Pre-Sape Sierra Leone)
Full Year Range of Pre-Sape Sierra Leone is assumed.
[600, 1400]
absent
None
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