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1 Drachm - Spur Martan Shah Turk Shahis, Khusro II imitation
| Issuer | Western Turk Shahis (Western Turk Dynasties) |
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| Year | 670-700 |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse description | Facing draped bust in Sasanian style, wearing a stepped crown with tiara surmounted by a globe, the hair rendered in wavy locks fanning outward; to the upper left, a senmurv protome facing right is visible in the field. A prominent counterstamp appears over the senmurv area, consisting of a lion head facing right set within an incuse punch. Inscriptional Pahlavi legends run along the margins within multiple beaded and plain concentric border rings, closely imitating the coinage of Sasanian ruler Khusro II. |
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| Reverse script | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
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The Turk Shahis of the Kabul-Zabulistan region produced imitative coinage of Sasanian prototypes as a deliberate claim to administrative legitimacy in the post-conquest power vacuum left after the Arab defeat of the Sasanian empire in the 640s. The Khusro II bust was among the most widely copied Sasanian types across Central Asia precisely because it remained recognizable as currency to populations still conditioned by decades of Sasanian fiscal dominance. The "Spur Martan" epithet identifies a specific dynastic branch rather than a geographic mint, a distinction Göbl's classification isolates through die analysis rather than provenance.