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Unknown Æ - Chirdanak Kabarna, without arrow, regular portraits
| Issuer | Kabarna, City of |
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| Year | 625-701 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (625-701) |
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Chirdanak Kabarna bronzes occupy a murky corner of early medieval Central Asian numismatics, attributed to a city-state in the Sogdian cultural sphere during the period when Sasanian political authority had collapsed and Arab conquest was still consolidating across the region. The "without arrow" designation distinguishes this type from related issues bearing a projectile symbol — a minor iconographic choice that likely carried administrative or dynastic meaning now lost to us. Sh&K (Shagalov and Kuznetsov) remains the only systematic reference for these issues, and their attribution frameworks are still debated among specialists working Sogdian coinage.