Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Forms of money

Token

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]
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Variable Definition
token The absence or presence of token for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Token Description   Edit
391
(Early Maravi)
Full Year Range of Early Maravi is assumed.
[1400, 1499]
uncoded
EMPTY_COMMENT
392
(Northern Maravi Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Northern Maravi Kingdom is assumed.
[1500, 1621]
uncoded
EMPTY_COMMENT
393
(Norman England)
Full Year Range of Norman England is assumed.
[1066, 1153]
absent
The Norman economy primarily relied on coins as the medium of exchange. The Normans adopted and expanded the Anglo-Saxon monetary system, which used silver coins like pennies. [Carpenter 2003]
394
(Chandra Dynasty)
Full Year Range of Chandra Dynasty is assumed.
[900, 1050]
present
“ ‘Row on, Domni, row on’, one poet urges a woman, and it is clear that customers paid in cowries (small shells) to be ferried across.” [van_Schendel 2009]
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