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
41	(Erligang)	Full Year Range of Erligang is assumed. [-1650, -1250]	unknown	None
42	(Jin)	Full Year Range of Jin is assumed. [-780, -404]	present	None
43	(Longshan)	Full Year Range of Longshan is assumed. [-3000, -1900]	present	None
44	(Jin Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Jin Dynasty is assumed. [1115, 1234]	present	None
45	(Northern Song)	Full Year Range of Northern Song is assumed. [960, 1127]	present	None
46	(Early Qing)	Full Year Range of Early Qing is assumed. [1644, 1796]	present	None
47	(Late Shang)	Full Year Range of Late Shang is assumed. [-1250, -1045]	present	None
48	(Tang Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty II is assumed. [763, 907]	present	None
49	(Western Zhou)	Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed. [-1122, -771]	unknown	None
50	(Chuuk - Early Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Early Truk is assumed. [1775, 1886]	absent	None

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