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Unknown Æ - Nana-Khatun Type V
| Issuer | Principality of Fiknan (Sogdiana) |
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| Year | 625-750 |
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| Weight | 1.62 g |
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| Obverse description | Conjoined facing busts depicted in a schematic, provincial style: a male bust to the left and a female bust to the right, both rendered in low relief with stylised facial features including horizontal bar eyes and broad noses. The effigies occupy the central field and are enclosed by a border of raised pellets running along the coin's irregular flan edge. The execution reflects the crude local die-cutting tradition characteristic of Sogdian bronze coinage of the early Islamic period. |
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| Reverse script | Sogdian |
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The Principality of Fiknan occupied a small territory in the Kashkadarya region of Sogdiana, one of dozens of semi-autonomous polities that fragmented Central Asian authority during the period when Tang Chinese influence and Arab expansion were simultaneously pressing on the region from opposite directions. The Nana-Khatun coin types are named for a female ruler or regent — the name itself invoking the Sogdian goddess Nana — though whether the title reflects actual female governance or a religious-dynastic formula remains unresolved in the literature.
Type V is distinguished from the earlier Nana-Khatun issues by tamga variants documented by Smirnova in her corpus of Sogdian coins.