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Unknown Æ - Anonymous Bukhar Khudat
| Issuer | Bukhar Khudat dynasty |
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| Year | 709-750 |
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| Weight | 1.20 g |
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| Reverse description | Stylized Zoroastrian fire altar depicted in the center of the field, rendered schematically with a stepped base and a rectangular altar table surmounted by what appears to be a flame or altar superstructure. Two attendant figures flank the altar on either side, shown in a highly abstracted, linear style typical of late Bukhar Khudat bronzes. The attendants appear to face inward toward the altar, their forms reduced to simplified outlines. Traces of a Sogdian or Bukhari inscription may be present around the design, though heavily worn and largely illegible. |
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| Mintage | ND (709-750) |
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The Bukhar Khudats were the indigenous rulers of Sogdiana's Bukhara oasis, issuing their own coinage well into the Umayyad occupation period — a practice the Arab administration tolerated largely because local bronze coinage was too embedded in regional commerce to disrupt. After the Arab conquest of 709, these anonymous issues continued circulating alongside Islamic coinage, a monetary overlap that lasted decades longer than the political one.