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1 Cash - Anonymous Uniface, shortened legend
| Issuer | Türgesh Khaganate (Semirechye) |
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| Year | 750-766 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Sogdian |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain and uninscribed reverse, typical of uniface cash coinage of the Türgesh Khaganate. The surface is flat with no design elements, legends, or decorative motifs, bearing only the natural texture of the cast bronze and an overall green patina with light surface corrosion and encrustation characteristic of prolonged burial. |
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The Türgesh Khaganate controlled the Semirechye region — roughly modern southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan — as a bulwark against Arab expansion from the west and Tang Chinese pressure from the east. This anonymous uniface type, with its abbreviated Sogdian legend, reflects the administrative chaos of the Khaganate's final decades: the ruling confederation had fractured into Yellow and Black Türgesh factions by the 740s, and centralized coin authority had effectively collapsed. The shortened legend likely signals a local or regional issuing point rather than a khagan's mint.