1 Cash Paikend, one cross

Paikend — a major Sogdian merchant city on the Silk Road southwest of Bukhara — issued its own civic coinage during the interval between the collapse of Sasanian authority and the consolidation of Umayyad control over Transoxiana. This type, catalogued by Zeimal, belongs to a remarkably local tradition of bronze coinage that persisted even as Arab armies progressively encircled the region through the second half of the 7th century. The city fell definitively to Qutayba ibn Muslim around 706–709 AD, effectively ending Paikend's independent civic life.