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Unknown Æ - Anonymous Chach
| Issuer | Principality of Chach |
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| Year | 601-801 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | A feline or bovine quadruped, identified as a lion or snow leopard, depicted in profile walking to the right, rendered in a stylized Central Asian artistic tradition. The animal's body is presented in low relief against a plain, unadorned field. The figure displays the characteristic compact, bold modeling typical of Chach civic coinage of the early medieval period. No legend or inscription accompanies the design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Chach — centered on the ancient city of Shash, site of modern Tashkent — was a semi-autonomous principality under loose Sogdian cultural influence before successive Arab incursions reshaped the region across the 7th and 8th centuries. Anonymous bronze issues of this type circulated through a period when the Chachian rulers were navigating pressure from the Umayyad Caliphate to the west and the Western Türk Khaganate's fragmented successor powers to the north and east. The Shash&Kochnev reference corpus remains the primary classificatory tool for these bronzes, many of which still resist firm attribution to specific rulers.