Dutch lion-dollar trade account unit
Dutch lion-dollar trade account unit: a historical unit of account.
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- Introduction and ending not established
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The story
Domestically managed Ottoman esedi/kuruş accounting developed from the Dutch esedi trade-unit convention. This qualified regional transition compresses local stages; it does not assert universal redemption of Dutch coins or obligations. [1]
Regional leu accounting continued the lion-thaler convention after the trade coin receded. This qualified branch compresses regional differentiation and later Ottoman influence; it does not equate every local leu with Dutch or Ottoman money. [2]
Turning points
Account-unit observation
Dutch esedi/lion-dollar accounting is documented before and during the adoption of domestically managed Ottoman reckoning. This scoped trade account identity excludes generic thalers and undifferentiated kuruş references; 1575 minting is not used as its account-unit birth. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Metin Coşgel · Metin Coşgel, Ellen Nye and Emre Özer, Currency transition: the use of foreign coins and dollarization in seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul; Ömerül Faruk Bölükbaşı · Ömerül Faruk Bölükbaşı, Darbhâne-i Âmire Para Basımından Nasıl Gelir Elde Ediyordu?; Şevket Pamuk · Şevket Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge 2000 C1206 ↗
- Elena Arcuș-Jantovan · Elena Arcuș-Jantovan, Dutch Coins in the Principality of Moldova 1711–1859; Dragoş Ungureanu · Dragoş Ungureanu, Coins Used on the Wallachian Monetary Market during the First Half of the18thCentury; Mugur Isărescu · Mugur Isărescu, 140 de ani de la instituirea sistemului monetar național modern, BNR25April 2007; university-hosted copy; Georgeta Ghionea · Georgeta Ghionea, Istoria băncilor urbane din Oltenia (1880–1948) C1207 ↗
- Metin Coşgel · Metin Coşgel, Ellen Nye and Emre Özer, Currency transition: the use of foreign coins and dollarization in seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul; Şevket Pamuk · Şevket Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge 2000 C1215 ↗
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