Catalog
1 Drachm - Anonymous Peroz imitation, Northern Tokharistan, Uncertain Sogdian mint, countermark
| Issuer | Uncertain Sogdian mint |
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| Year | 501-601 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and crowned bust of the Sasanian king Peroz (or a local imitation thereof) facing right, rendered in a debased provincial style characteristic of post-Sasanian Sogdian and Tokharistani coinage. The effigy displays the distinctive winged crown associated with Peroz I. Two countermarks appear in the field: a retrograde tamgha of uncertain attribution, possibly associated with a Turkic ruler, and an applied Bactrian legend countermark, both applied over the original die-struck design. |
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| Mintage | ND (501-601) |
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These anonymous imitations of Sasanian Peroz drachms circulated widely across Tokharistan and Sogdia following the catastrophic Hephthalite campaigns that killed Peroz I in 484 AD — a defeat so complete it temporarily ended Sasanian tribute collection east of the Oxus and created a monetary vacuum that local imitators rushed to fill. The countermark indicates secondary authorization by a regional authority, a common practice when no mint infrastructure existed to produce original issues.