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Unknown Æ - Shchanyabag Farankat
| Issuer | Farankat, City of |
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| Year | 601-801 |
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| Weight | 1.59 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field occupied by the dynastic tamgha of Farankat, a distinctive geometric symbol composed of angular and rectangular elements rendered in bold relief, flanked by subsidiary decorative motifs. A Sogdian inscription encircles the central device, running along the periphery of the flan and identifying the coin by its issuing authority. The design is characteristic of Sogdian city-state coinage of the 7th–9th centuries CE. |
| Reverse script | Sogdian |
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Farankat was a minor urban center in the Sogdian cultural sphere of Transoxiana, and its autonomous bronze issues reflect the fragmented political reality of the region during the seventh and eighth centuries — a period when Arab conquest gradually displaced the Iranian-rooted dynasties that had issued their own civic coinage for generations. The Sh&K reference places this among the typology documented by Shchanyabag and Kochnev, whose work remains the principal scholarly framework for these poorly-understood Central Asian bronzes.