Evidence coverage: 1870–1870. 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.
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
By 1870 the coastal four-yard doti-merikani served as an accounting measure for export commodities. Inland doti lengths varied; this profile does not merge all East African cloth reckoning.
Sources and qualifications →Local cloth, bead and shell accounts should not be forced into a single commodity currency. Their successors and complete endings remain unverified; market exchange does not create ancestry.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
By 1870 the coastal four-yard doti-merikani served as an accounting measure for export commodities. Inland doti lengths varied; this profile does not merge all East African cloth reckoning.
C2067Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
By 1870 the coastal four-yard doti-merikani served as an accounting measure for export commodities. Inland doti lengths varied; this profile does not merge all East African cloth reckoning.
p.77 nn.21–24:coastal doti; pp.82–84, especially p.83 n.58:Ujiji sofi; DOI10.1007/978-3-030-20973-5_4
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Chapter OCR inspected; publisher metadata corroborated.
Cameron original 1877 edition not directly inspected.
Local cloth, bead and shell accounts should not be forced into a single commodity currency. Their successors and complete endings remain unverified; market exchange does not create ancestry.
p.77 nn.21–24:coastal doti; pp.82–84, especially p.83 n.58:Ujiji sofi; DOI10.1007/978-3-030-20973-5_4; From cowries to coins? and The introduction of cents; author summary of2015 archival study
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Chapter OCR inspected; publisher metadata corroborated.
Cameron original 1877 edition not directly inspected.
p.77 nn.21–24:coastal doti; pp.82–84, especially p.83 n.58:Ujiji sofi; DOI10.1007/978-3-030-20973-5_4; From cowries to coins? and The introduction of cents; author summary of2015 archival study
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Author summary inspected; underlying 2015 article not inspected.