Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Forms of money

Paper Currency

Paper currency or another kind of fiat money. note that this only refers to indigenously produced paper currency. code absent if colonial money is used.   (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]
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Variable Definition
paper_currency The absence or presence of paper currency for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Paper Currency Description   Edit
1
(Mossi)
1100 CE 1750 CE
unknown
None
2
(Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I)
1615 CE 1769 CE
absent
None
3
(French Kingdom - Late Bourbon)
1700 CE 1720 CE
present
None
4
(Spanish Empire II)
1716 CE 1814 CE
absent
None
5
(Mossi)
1751 CE 1897 CE
absent
None
6
(Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I)
1769 CE 1775 CE
present
None
7
(Rattanakosin)
1782 CE 1862 CE
absent
None
8
(Rattanakosin)
1862 CE 1873 CE
present
None
9
(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)
1867 CE 1918 CE
present
None
10
(Soviet Union)
1923 CE 1991 CE
present
None
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