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Unknown Æ - Unknown Ruler
| Issuer | Kanka, City of |
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| Year | 601-801 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (601-801) |
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Kanka was a Sogdian city in the Chach region — the Tashkent oasis — whose bronze coinage circulated during a period of intense political fragmentation following the Arab conquest of Sogdia. The city's rulers issued autonomous copper coinage even as Umayyad and later Abbasid authority nominally extended eastward, a reflection of how loosely that authority was actually enforced at the urban level in Transoxiana.
Sh&K 98 places this type within Bukharkhudat-influenced issues, though the ruling authority behind this specific emission remains unidentified in the corpus.