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
21	(Iban - Pre-Brooke)	Full Year Range of Iban - Pre-Brooke is assumed. [1650, 1841]	absent	None
22	(Hephthalites)	Full Year Range of Hephthalites is assumed. [408, 561]	present	None
23	(Western Jin)	Full Year Range of Western Jin is assumed. [265, 317]	present	None
24	(Sui Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Sui Dynasty is assumed. [581, 618]	present	None
25	(Great Yuan)	Full Year Range of Great Yuan is assumed. [1271, 1368]	present	None
26	(Ayyubid Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Ayyubid Sultanate is assumed. [1171, 1250]	present	None
27	(Badarian)	Full Year Range of Badarian is assumed. [-4400, -3800]	unknown	None
28	(Egypt - Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty II is assumed. [-2900, -2687]	present	None
29	(Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III is assumed. [1412, 1517]	present	None
30	(Chuuk - Early Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Early Truk is assumed. [1775, 1886]	absent	None

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