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
11
(Rattanakosin)
1862 CE 1873 CE
present
None
12
(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)
1867 CE 1918 CE
present
None
13
(Soviet Union)
1923 CE 1991 CE
present
None
14
(Kievan Rus)
Full Year Range of Kievan Rus is assumed.
[880, 1242]
absent
None
15
(Classic Tana)
Full Year Range of Classic Tana is assumed.
[1100, 1498]
absent
None
16
(Southern Song)
Full Year Range of Southern Song is assumed.
[1127, 1279]
present
None
17
(Grand Principality of Moscow, Rurikid Dynasty)
Full Year Range of Grand Principality of Moscow, Rurikid Dynasty is assumed.
[1480, 1613]
absent
None
18
(Qin Empire)
Full Year Range of Qin Empire is assumed.
[-338, -207]
absent
None
19
(Five Dynasties Period)
Full Year Range of Five Dynasties Period is assumed.
[906, 970]
present
None
20
(Axum II)
Full Year Range of Axum II is assumed.
[350, 599]
absent
None
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