1 Cash - Vahshutava With Yuan, with hole

The Türgesh Khaganate occupied a precarious position in the early eighth century, caught between Tang Chinese expansion from the east and Umayyad Arab forces pushing into Sogdia from the west. This coin belongs to that pressure-cooker period — the Türgesh under Su-lu Qaghan were simultaneously fighting the Arabs in Transoxiana and managing uneasy relations with the Tang court. The Vahshutava legend reflects direct borrowing from Sogdian monetary tradition, a deliberate signal of legitimacy to the sedentary urban populations the Türgesh needed to tax and govern.

The square central hole follows the Chinese cash format adopted across Inner Asian steppe polities as a practical minting convention. Smirnova's cataloguing of this type drew heavily on Semirech'ye excavation finds.