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
71	(Ak Koyunlu)	Full Year Range of Ak Koyunlu is assumed. [1339, 1501]	unknown	None
72	(Buyid Confederation)	Full Year Range of Buyid Confederation is assumed. [932, 1062]	unknown	None
73	(Elam I)	Full Year Range of Elam I is assumed. [-900, -744]	unknown	None
74	(Elam II)	Full Year Range of Elam II is assumed. [-743, -647]	unknown	None
75	(Elam III)	Full Year Range of Elam III is assumed. [-612, -539]	unknown	None
76	(Safavid Empire)	Full Year Range of Safavid Empire is assumed. [1501, 1722]	unknown	None
77	(Sasanid Empire I)	Full Year Range of Sasanid Empire I is assumed. [205, 487]	unknown	None
78	(Seleucids)	Full Year Range of Seleucids is assumed. [-312, -63]	unknown	None
79	(Elam - Late Sukkalmah)	Full Year Range of Elam - Late Sukkalmah is assumed. [-1700, -1500]	unknown	None
80	(Chuuk - Early Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Early Truk is assumed. [1775, 1886]	absent	None

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