Unknown Æ - Chardmish Bust facing right

Ustrushana occupied the Zarafshan valley southeast of Sogdiana and maintained a degree of autonomy under its own ikhshid rulers well into the early Islamic period — a political arrangement that allowed local bronze coinage to continue circulating long after Arab conquest reshaped the surrounding region. These small bronzes functioned at the lowest register of exchange in a mountainous principality that Arab geographers would later describe as fiercely independent.

The absence of an Alram reference number indicates this type remains unclassified in the standard corpus, placing it among the genuinely unresolved pieces of Central Asian numismatics.