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1 Cash - Tukaspadak Samarqand
| Issuer | Samarqand, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 696-698 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole flanked by a Sogdian inscription arranged around the perforation within the field. The legend, reading in Sogdian script, identifies the issuing ruler as King Tukaspadak. The characters are distributed across the four quadrants surrounding the central hole, with the inscription occupying the primary face of the coin. The overall style is typical of Sogdian coinage of the late 7th century, with a flat, cast flan and irregular surface texture consistent with bronze casting. |
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| Obverse lettering | twk`sp`d`k MLK` (Translation: King Tukaspadak) |
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Samarqand in the late 7th century was a pressure point between the expanding Umayyad caliphate pushing east across Khurasan and the residual Sogdian ruling structures that had governed Central Asia's trade corridors for centuries. Tukaspadak was among the last indigenous rulers to strike in his own name before Arab administrative control rendered local dynastic coinage effectively obsolete. Smirnova's corpus of Sogdian coins remains the foundational reference for this series, and her number 191 is not a common attribution.