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Unknown Æ - Anonymous / In the name of Thun Jabgu Khan, 618-628 Kabarna, with throne
| Issuer | Kabarna, City of |
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| Year | 618-628 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized frontal throne or seat motif rendered in low relief, typical of Sogdian-influenced Central Asian coinage of the early 7th century. The design is executed in a crude, schematic style characteristic of anonymous civic issues struck under Türk suzerainty. The flan is irregular and shows natural casting or hammering irregularities along the edge. The surface exhibits heavy patination consistent with a bronze alloy of this period. No legible inscription is present on the obverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kabarna was a minor Sogdian city in the Chach region — modern Tashkent basin — whose coinage from this period reflects the fragmented political reality of Central Asia under loose Western Turkic overlordship. Issuing in the name of Thun Jabgu Khan, who ruled the Western Turkic Khaganate roughly 618–628, local Sogdian authorities routinely invoked Turkic legitimacy on their bronze without that implying direct administrative control. The arrangement was fiscal and diplomatic more than imperial.
Sh&K#41 is among the rarer Chach civic types catalogued by Shagalov and Kuznetsov.