Unknown Æ - Rakhanch Without cross

Ustrushana occupied the Zeravshan valley north of Sogdia, a minor but strategically positioned principality that maintained its own bronze coinage well into the Islamic period. The Rakhanch type — named for the local rulers' title rather than a place — belongs to a poorly documented sequence that Smirnova catalogued only partially; Zeimal left this specific variant unnumbered, meaning it fell outside even his systematic attempt to impose order on the chaotic pre-Islamic bronzes of Central Asia. The absence of a cross distinguishes it from the commoner variant and likely signals a different phase of production or a separate issuing authority within the principality's fractured administrative structure.