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Unknown Æ - Uncertain Ruler Samarqand
| Issuer | Samarqand (ancient) |
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| Year | 575-601 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Facing or slightly left-turned female bust with loose, flowing hair rendered in a schematic Sogdian artistic style. The effigy occupies the central field, with the face depicted frontally and the hair falling on either side of the head in thin strands. The portrait is rendered in low relief, characteristic of early medieval Central Asian coinage. No legend or inscription is present on the obverse. The flan is irregular and shows typical casting and striking irregularities of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (575-601) |
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Samarqand's pre-Islamic bronze coinage from the late sixth century occupies a poorly documented stretch of Sogdian history, when the region cycled through nominal Sasanian suzerainty, Hephthalite pressure, and early Western Türk dominance in rapid succession. The issuing authority behind Smirnova #33 remains unidentified — the attribution to a specific ruler has not been resolved in the scholarly literature, and the dating range itself reflects that uncertainty rather than a confirmed reign.