Unknown Æ Northern Tokharistan

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.