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Unknown AE - Unknown Ruler Middle Period, Uniface
| Issuer | Choresmia (ancient) |
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| Year | 50-100 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Dynastic tamgha of Khwarezm rendered in relief within a raised circular border. The tamgha consists of a stylized curvilinear device with a central rounded element surmounting a tripartite lower section with curved terminals, characteristic of the Khwarezmian royal dynastic emblem. The design occupies the central field with no additional inscription or subsidiary devices. The flan is irregular and the relief is bold, consistent with hand-struck provincial coinage of the early Kushano-Khwarezmian period. |
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| Mintage | ND (50-100) - Regular tamgha - ND (50-100) - Retrograde tamgha - |
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Chorasmian coinage of the mid-to-late first century occupies one of the more poorly documented stretches in Central Asian numismatics. The region, situated in the lower Oxus delta, operated largely outside Parthian monetary authority during this period, producing its own bronze issues under a succession of rulers whose names remain partially or entirely unresolved in the historical record. Vainberg's classification system, the primary reference framework for Chorasmian bronzes, still leaves significant attribution gaps at this level.
The uniface character of this piece is consistent with local minting practice rather than damage or incompletion — Chorasmian workshops of this period regularly produced single-die strikes on irregular flans.