Unknown Æ - Shchanyabag Farankat

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.