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Unknown Æ - Unknown Ruler
| Issuer | Kanka, City of |
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| Year | 601-801 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Stylized tamgha or dynastic emblem occupying the central field, rendered in a fluid, curvilinear design typical of Chach civic coinage of the early medieval period. The device is surrounded by a border of pellets or a dotted circle near the rim. A Sogdian inscription encircles or accompanies the central emblem, reading 'pny c`cynk xwb' (translating as 'Coin of the Chach Ruler'). The strike is irregular and the flan is slightly ragged at the edges, consistent with hand-hammered production methods of the 7th–9th century Transoxiana region. |
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| Mintage | ND (601-801) |
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Kanka was a Sogdian city in the Chach (Tashkent) region, and its bronze civic coinage from this period circulated during an extraordinarily turbulent two centuries — spanning the collapse of the Western Turkic Khaganate, the Arab conquest of Transoxiana, and the absorption of the region into the Abbasid sphere. That such small local issues survived at all reflects how stubbornly municipal exchange networks persisted beneath successive waves of political reorganization. Attribution of individual rulers within the Sh&K classification system remains tentative; the numbering reflects typological groupings rather than confirmed dynastic sequences.