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Unknown Æ Uncertain Sogdian mint, Eastern Sogdiana
| Issuer | Uncertain Sogdian mint |
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| Year | 601-801 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field occupied by a tamgha device in the form of the runic letter Ash, boldly struck and serving as the primary emblem of the issuing authority. The tamgha is surrounded by a crude Sogdian inscription arranged in a circular legend around the device, executed in a degenerate hand typical of late Sogdian bronze coinage. The overall composition is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sogdian bronze coinage from this period circulated across the merchant networks connecting China to the western steppes, and individual city-states — Samarkand, Bukhara, Panjikent among them — each issued their own autonomous bronze with little central coordination. Attributing pieces to specific mints remains genuinely contested; Smirnova's 1982 corpus was a landmark, but subsequent excavations at Panjikent and elsewhere have forced repeated revisions to her attributions.
The two-century window reflects honest uncertainty, not carelessness.