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Unknown Æ - Tuun Chach, Uncertain Principality I, regular portraits, no symbols
| Issuer | Uncertain Chachian mint |
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| Year | 750-801 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Two facing busts depicted side by side in the field, rendered in a schematic, provincial style characteristic of Sogdian coinage of Chach. The portraits appear as regular, confronted effigies with minimal detail, executed with relatively crude die-cutting typical of late 8th-century Central Asian issues. No symbols or additional devices are present in the field. The flan is irregular and shows typical characteristics of hand-struck Chachian coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse lettering | bgy twwn x`g`n (Translation: Divine Khagan Tuun) |
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Chach — the region around modern Tashkent — produced an exceptionally fragmented coinage during the eighth century, with local rulers issuing bronze in their own names while the broader political order shifted repeatedly between Türgesh, Arab, and Tang Chinese spheres of influence. The identity of the ruler behind this issue remains unresolved; Shagalov and Kuznetsov's cataloguing of Chachian bronzes groups several such pieces under provisional attributions where the Sogdian legends resist clean reading or lack parallels in documented regnal sequences.
The "regular portraits, no symbols" classification is itself a typological distinction within a series where tamga marks and subsidiary symbols were frequently used to differentiate sub-issues from the same mint.