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Tetradrachm - Artramush Middle Period
| Issuer | Choresmia (ancient) |
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| Year | 200-250 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Diademed bust of the king facing right, wearing a distinctive cap-like headdress adorned with an eagle motif. To the left of the effigy, a winged Nike stands facing right, extending a wreath to crown the ruler. A crescent symbol appears to the right of the bust. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded border rendered in the bead-and-reel style characteristic of Chorasmian coinage of the Middle Period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Choresmian coinage of this period occupies an awkward documentary gap — the region's political history between the Kushan sphere and the later Afrigid dynasty is poorly reconstructed, and the attribution to an "Artramush Middle Period" reflects Vainberg's typological sequencing rather than any confirmed ruler name recovered from written sources. The coinage itself is among the primary evidence for Chorasmia's administrative continuity during a century when the surrounding regions were being reshaped by Kushan expansion.