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Balinese cash / pisis accounting: research record

Evidence coverage: 1384–1384. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Balinese cash / pisis accounting

CUR-V37-BALI-PISIS · 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: 1384; 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 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Balinese cash / pisis accounting · C2060

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Balinese cash / pisis accounting

The 1384 Batur inscription sets a fine of 800 cash. Later legal manuscripts use cash strings, but their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copying dates must not be projected backward.

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Documented legal change; account transition unresolved

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.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1384supported

The 1384 Batur inscription sets a fine of 800 cash. Later legal manuscripts use cash strings, but their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copying dates must not be projected backward.

C2060
Evidence & research notes 2 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C2060

The 1384 Batur inscription sets a fine of 800 cash. Later legal manuscripts use cash strings, but their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copying dates must not be projected backward.

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

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 S1078

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.

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