Unknown Æ Bukhara Sogd

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.