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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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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Completely blank reverse with no devices, inscriptions, or decorative elements, the flan showing only the plain struck surface with minor irregularities consistent with the hammered technique. This uniface production is characteristic of early Khwarezmian bronze coinage of the middle period, where only the obverse die bearing the dynastic tamgha was employed. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.