Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Forms of money

Precious Metal

Talking about forms of money, precious metals are non-coined silver, gold, platinum (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]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
precious_metal	The absence or presence of precious metal for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Precious Metal	Description	Edit
181	(Ashanti Empire)	Full Year Range of Ashanti Empire is assumed. [1701, 1895]	present	None
182	(Archaic Crete)	Full Year Range of Archaic Crete is assumed. [-710, -500]	present	None
183	(Classical Crete)	Full Year Range of Classical Crete is assumed. [-500, -323]	present	None
184	(Geometric Crete)	Full Year Range of Geometric Crete is assumed. [-1000, -710]	present	None
185	(Monopalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Monopalatial Crete is assumed. [-1450, -1300]	present	None
186	(The Old Palace Crete)	Full Year Range of The Old Palace Crete is assumed. [-1900, -1700]	present	None
187	(Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1300, -1200]	unknown	None
188	(Hawaii II)	Full Year Range of Hawaii II is assumed. [1200, 1580]	absent	None
189	(Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial)	Full Year Range of Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial is assumed. [1841, 1987]	absent	None
190	(Majapahit Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Majapahit Kingdom is assumed. [1292, 1518]	present	None

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