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Tetradrachm - Wazamar Middle Period
| Issuer | Choresmia (ancient) |
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| Year | 250-300 |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed, bearded royal bust facing right, with elaborately plaited hair and wearing a distinctive cap-like headdress surmounted by a seated falcon in profile. The portrait is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition adapted to local Chorasmian artistic conventions, with pronounced facial features. The entire design is contained within a bead-and-reel border, characteristic of the dynastic coinage of ancient Khwarezm. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Choresmian coinage of this period operated entirely outside the Silk Road's more documented exchange networks — the kingdom sat in the Oxus delta, agriculturally rich but politically isolated between the Kushan empire to the east and Sasanian pressure from the west. The Wazamar series, identified by Vainberg's typology, represents a dynasty whose rulers are known almost exclusively through their coins; no contemporary written source names them independently.
The Б2V classification places this piece in the middle of the Wazamar sequence, after the initial imitative phase drew away from its Parthian prototypes toward a distinctly local idiom. Fabric irregularities common to this group reflect local silver sourcing rather than mint inconsistency.