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1 Cash - Bidkan Pendjikent
| Issuer | Panch, Principality of |
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| Year | 690-709 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (690-709) |
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Pendjikent — ancient Panjikent, in modern Tajikistan — was a Sogdian merchant city that maintained its own coinage well into the Arab conquest period, a remarkable act of local monetary persistence as the Umayyad caliphate swept through Transoxiana. The Bidkan type specifically is attributed to the ruling prince of Panch, one of several semi-autonomous Sogdian principalities that continued issuing bronze cash imitations derived ultimately from Chinese and Sasanian prototypes. Smirnova's catalog remains the foundational reference for this material, assembled largely from Soviet-era excavation finds at Panjikent itself.