← Read the currency articleBalinese masaka accounting: research record
Evidence coverage: AD 882–AD 923. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
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Balinese masaka accounting
CUR-V37-BALI-MASAKA · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: AD 882–AD 923; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Parents / predecessors
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
Children / successors
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Unit and issue records 2 records
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Balinese masaka accounting · C2058
Masaka as abstract valuation · C2059
Latest research
Balinese masaka accountingThe 882 Sukawana AI inheritance rule reserves estate goods valued at four masaka for funeral costs. Heterogeneous goods are valued in a common account, not merely weighed as gold.
Sources and qualifications → Masaka as abstract valuationThe 923 Sembiran AI inheritance provision further supports ma as a measure of value distinct from a literal gold quantity.
Sources and qualifications → Documented legal change; account transition unresolvedLegal monetary expressions were updated as cash displaced older measures. The inspected evidence does not yet establish the carry-over of balances, a precise conversion, or one continuous Java–Bali account. Keep ancestry unresolved.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
882supportedThe 882 Sukawana AI inheritance rule reserves estate goods valued at four masaka for funeral costs. Heterogeneous goods are valued in a common account, not merely weighed as gold.
C2058 923supportedThe 923 Sembiran AI inheritance provision further supports ma as a measure of value distinct from a literal gold quantity.
C2059
Evidence & research notes 3 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C2058
The 882 Sukawana AI inheritance rule reserves estate goods valued at four masaka for funeral costs. Heterogeneous goods are valued in a common account, not merely weighed as gold.
Robert S. Wicks · Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia (1992) Citation S1078pp.271–274 and279–280:Telang II903, Sukawana AI882 and Sembiran AI923; p.252 n.33 earlier evidence limits
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C2059
The 923 Sembiran AI inheritance provision further supports ma as a measure of value distinct from a literal gold quantity.
Robert S. Wicks · Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia (1992) Citation S1078pp.271–274 and279–280:Telang II903, Sukawana AI882 and Sembiran AI923; p.252 n.33 earlier evidence limits
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Qualified C2061
Legal monetary expressions were updated as cash displaced older measures. The inspected evidence does not yet establish the carry-over of balances, a precise conversion, or one continuous Java–Bali account. Keep ancestry unresolved.
Helen Creese · Old Javanese legal traditions in pre-colonial Bali, BKI165 (2009),241–290 Citation S1079 ·
Open source ↗pp.250–251 nn.21–23:1384 Batur fine; later legal manuscript copying; DOI10.1163/22134379-90003636; pp.271–274 and279–280:Telang II903, Sukawana AI882 and Sembiran AI923; p.252 n.33 earlier evidence limits
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Robert S. Wicks · Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia (1992) Citation S1078pp.250–251 nn.21–23:1384 Batur fine; later legal manuscript copying; DOI10.1163/22134379-90003636; pp.271–274 and279–280:Telang II903, Sukawana AI882 and Sembiran AI923; p.252 n.33 earlier evidence limits
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.