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Unknown Æ Northern Tokharistan
| Issuer | Northern Tokharistan |
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| Year | 620-750 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of a ruler facing right, wearing a distinctive capped or helmeted headdress. The effigy is rendered in a provincial Central Asian style characteristic of post-Kushano-Sasanian coinage. A Sogdian legend appears in the field before the face. The overall style reflects the syncretic artistic traditions of the Tokharistan region during the early medieval period. |
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| Mintage | ND (620-750) |
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Northern Tokharistan in this period was contested terrain — passing through the hands of the Western Türk Qaghanate, then briefly under Tang Chinese suzerainty, before Arab forces pushed north from Khorasan in the early eighth century. The small bronzes produced here during this window reflect that instability: local dynastic issues minted by minor rulers operating with varying degrees of autonomy under whichever overpower currently held the Oxus region. Attribution within this series remains genuinely unresolved, with scholars still debating which issues belong to which sub-dynasties of the Tokharistan princes.