Unknown Æ - Ahurpat Kesh, within square

Kesh was a minor Sogdian principality in the Kashkadarya valley — modern Uzbekistan — caught between the dying Sasanian world and the advancing Umayyad caliphate during precisely the years this coin circulated. The inscription naming Ahurpat identifies a local ruler otherwise almost absent from written sources; these small bronzes are frequently the only evidence such figures existed at all.