Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Forms of money

Token

Talking about forms of money, tokens, unlike articles, are used only for exchange, and unlike coins, are not manufactured (example: cowries) (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
token	The absence or presence of token for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Token	Description	Edit
231	(Mane)	Full Year Range of Mane is assumed. [1550, 1650]	absent	None
232	(Pre-Sape Sierra Leone)	Full Year Range of Pre-Sape Sierra Leone is assumed. [600, 1400]	absent	None
233	(Sape)	Full Year Range of Sape is assumed. [1400, 1550]	absent	None
234	(Nkore)	Full Year Range of Nkore is assumed. [1750, 1901]	absent	None
235	(Toutswe)	Full Year Range of Toutswe is assumed. [700, 1250]	present	None
236	(Great Zimbabwe)	Full Year Range of Great Zimbabwe is assumed. [1270, 1550]	present	None
237	(Dutch Empire)	Full Year Range of Dutch Empire is assumed. [1648, 1795]	present	None
238	(Classical Ife)	Full Year Range of Classical Ife is assumed. [1000, 1400]	present	None
239	(Ifat Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Ifat Sultanate is assumed. [1280, 1375]	present	None
240	(Ilú-ọba Ọ̀yọ́)	Full Year Range of Ilú-ọba Ọ̀yọ́ is assumed. [1601, 1835]	present	None

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