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Unknown Æ - Anonymous Kabarna
| Issuer | Kabarna, City of |
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| Year | 625-750 |
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| Reference(s) | Sh&K#56 |
| Obverse description | Mounted horseman advancing to the right, depicted in profile. A standing female figure is positioned before the horse, facing the rider and extending her arms in an offering gesture. The design is executed in the flat, schematic style characteristic of Central Asian coinage of the early medieval period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kabarna was a minor civic mint operating in the Arabian frontier zone during the transitional decades of early Islamic expansion, when Byzantine administrative structures were collapsing unevenly across the Levant and former provincial cities continued striking anonymous bronze for local exchange well after central authority had dissolved. The Sh&K corpus — Shaddel and Kool's reference framework for these post-Byzantine civic issues — remains the primary tool for attribution, though many types in the sequence are known from only a handful of specimens.
The anonymous character of this issue is deliberate, not a gap in the record.