Evidence coverage: 1874–1874. 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.
Cameron’s 1874 observation describes market prices in sofi beads and moneychangers. This supports a local market account; daily cloth exchange is not a hard peg.
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.
Cameron’s 1874 observation describes market prices in sofi beads and moneychangers. This supports a local market account; daily cloth exchange is not a hard peg.
C2068Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Cameron’s 1874 observation describes market prices in sofi beads and moneychangers. This supports a local market account; daily cloth exchange is not a hard peg.
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.