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1 Cash Pargar
| Issuer | Pargar, Domain of |
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| Year | 701-755 |
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| Shape | Round with a square hole |
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| Obverse script | Sogdian |
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| Reverse description | Central square hole with a raised square border, flanked by the tamgha of Samarqand positioned to the right of the hole, accompanied by a crescent and orb symbol above. Sogdian script legend occupies the left and lower portions of the field, reading bgy prn, translating as 'Grace of God'. The overall composition follows the standard typology of Sogdian cast bronze cash coins of the early medieval period, with a beaded outer border encircling the design. |
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Pargar was a small Sogdian domain in the upper Kashka Darya valley, operating under nominal Tang Chinese suzerainty while maintaining its own coinage tradition well into the eighth century. These issues follow the square-hole format inherited from Chinese cash coinage, adapted by local Sogdian rulers who inserted their own Sogdian-script legends — a hybrid monetary practice common across the pre-Islamic transoxianian principalities before the Abbasid conquest extinguished most of them by the 750s.
Smirnova's 1981 corpus remains the primary reference for these issues, catalogued from Soviet-era archaeological excavations in Uzbekistan.