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Evidence coverage: AD 903–AD 903. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
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Old Javanese masa–suwarna accounting
CUR-V37-JAVA-MASA · 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 903; 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.
Old Javanese masa–suwarna accounting · C2057
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Old Javanese masa–suwarna accountingThe 903 Telang II record projects ferry revenue of nine masa. Its valuation can be distinguished from settlement in goods or silver; masa, kupang and suwarna remain denominations in one scoped profile.
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 → Qualified local scope and open successorShared Javanese monetary vocabulary does not establish a Java-to-Laguna inheritance or a continuous route into the Philippine peso. Do not equate this single record with a currency of the whole archipelago.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
903supportedThe 903 Telang II record projects ferry revenue of nine masa. Its valuation can be distinguished from settlement in goods or silver; masa, kupang and suwarna remain denominations in one scoped profile.
C2057
Evidence & research notes 3 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C2057
The 903 Telang II record projects ferry revenue of nine masa. Its valuation can be distinguished from settlement in goods or silver; masa, kupang and suwarna remain denominations in one scoped profile.
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.
Qualified C2063
Shared Javanese monetary vocabulary does not establish a Java-to-Laguna inheritance or a continuous route into the Philippine peso. Do not equate this single record with a currency of the whole archipelago.
Antoon Postma · The Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription: Text and Commentary, Philippine Studies40.2 (1992),183–203 Citation S1080 ·
Open source ↗pp.186–187 translation line5 and nn.5–6; provenance discussion from p.185
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Article transcription inspected.