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Unknown Æ - Anonymous Chach
| Issuer | Principality of Chach |
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| Year | 601-801 |
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| Reference(s) | Sh&K#249 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (601-801) |
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Chach — the region around modern Tashkent — sat at a junction point where Sogdian commercial networks met the steppe frontier, and its coinage reflects a political patchwork of semi-autonomous princes issuing their own bronze in imitation of, and competition with, neighboring Sogdian city-states. The Sh&K typology (Shagalov and Kuznetsov) remains the primary classificatory framework for this material, built largely from excavation assemblages at Mingtepa and related sites.
Anonymous attributions within this series are common — many Chach princes left no textual record whatsoever.