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.
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.