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Unknown Æ Bukhara Sogd
| Issuer | Bukhara Sogd (ancient) |
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| Year | 550-601 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Sogdian |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bukhara's pre-Islamic bronze coinage occupies one of the murkier corners of Central Asian numismatics. The series ran under local Bukhar-Khudah rulers during a period when the region sat between competing Hephthalite collapse and early Göktürk expansion — neither fully autonomous nor firmly absorbed. Smirnova's 1981 corpus remains the essential reference, but unlisted pieces are genuinely common, a consequence of the enormous volume of these bronzes struck and the limited die study conducted since publication.