1 Cash Pargar

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.