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Javanese picis / cash accounting: research record

Evidence coverage: 1358–1387. 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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Javanese picis / cash accounting

CUR-V50-JAVA-PICIS · 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: 1358–1387; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Old Javanese masa–suwarna accountingaccount system transition · qualified · 1296–1358
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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.

A tax in cash · C2135
A fisherman’s debt · C2136

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A tax in cash

The 1358 Ferry Charter assesses an annual festival payment of 400 cash for each ferryman. This is a dated obligation in the Javanese picis system.

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A fisherman’s debt

The 1387 Karang Bogem charter records a fisherman’s debt of 120,000 cash. The cash amount denotes a debt; a separate fish-preserve delivery in the passage is measured by the weight of cash.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1358supported

The 1358 Ferry Charter assesses an annual festival payment of 400 cash for each ferryman. This is a dated obligation in the Javanese picis system.

C2135
1387supported

The 1387 Karang Bogem charter records a fisherman’s debt of 120,000 cash. The cash amount denotes a debt; a separate fish-preserve delivery in the passage is measured by the weight of cash.

C2136
Evidence & research notes 3 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C2135

The 1358 Ferry Charter assesses an annual festival payment of 400 cash for each ferryman. This is a dated obligation in the Javanese picis system.

Robert S. Wicks · Monetary Developments in Java between the Ninth and Sixteenth Centuries: A Numismatic Perspective, Indonesia 42 (1986), 42–77 Citation S1124 · Open source ↗

pp. 59–62, especially p. 60 n. 67; 1294/1296 inscriptions, legal translations, 1358 ferry tax and 1387 debt

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C2136

The 1387 Karang Bogem charter records a fisherman’s debt of 120,000 cash. The cash amount denotes a debt; a separate fish-preserve delivery in the passage is measured by the weight of cash.

Robert S. Wicks · Monetary Developments in Java between the Ninth and Sixteenth Centuries: A Numismatic Perspective, Indonesia 42 (1986), 42–77 Citation S1124 · Open source ↗

pp. 59–62, especially p. 60 n. 67; 1294/1296 inscriptions, legal translations, 1358 ferry tax and 1387 debt

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C2146

Old Javanese legal adaptations express fines or payments first in indigenous ma–su–ku terms and also in cash amounts. Wicks connects this re-expression of values with the move to picis reckoning around 1300. The account succession is qualified: the legal glosses are not precisely dated, and 1296–1358 bounds the dated evidence rather than an exact conversion decree.

Robert S. Wicks · Monetary Developments in Java between the Ninth and Sixteenth Centuries: A Numismatic Perspective, Indonesia 42 (1986), 42–77 Citation S1124 · Open source ↗

pp. 59–62, especially p. 60 n. 67; 1294/1296 inscriptions, legal translations, 1358 ferry tax and 1387 debt

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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