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1 Obol Antiochos imitation, Samarqand, stylized archer, bow to the right, KYDR
| Issuer | Samarqand (ancient) (Sogdiana (ancient)) |
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| Year | 350-390 |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Obverse script | Sogdian |
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| Edge | Plain |
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These small silver pieces circulated in the Sogdian commercial network during a period when no centralized Sogdian state existed to issue coins on its own authority — local rulers instead borrowed the visual vocabulary of Antiochos I Soter, whose coins had moved through the region centuries earlier. The legend KYDR likely encodes a ruler's name or title in an early Sogdian script form, though its precise reading remains debated among specialists.