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.
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.