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Unknown Æ - Unknown Tudun Ruler Chach, with cross
| Issuer | Principality of Chach |
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| Year | 601-801 |
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| Reference(s) | Sh&K#220 |
| Obverse description | Bust of ruler in three-quarter facing left, adorned with large pendant earrings and a distinctive cap or headdress. A cross device appears prominently in the field before the face, indicating possible religious or dynastic symbolism. The portrait is rendered in the typical Central Asian Sogdian artistic style, with bold, stylized facial features. The flan is irregular and the strike somewhat weak, consistent with hammered coinage of the region and period. |
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| Mintage | ND (601-801) - Backwards tdwn - ND (601-801) - Regular tdwn - |
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Chach — the ancient city-state centered on modern Tashkent — produced a dense and poorly-documented series of copper issues under local rulers bearing the Sogdian title *tudun*, a term denoting a subordinate governor, often appointed or recognized under Türk suzerainty. The cross motif on this type has generated genuine scholarly debate: it may reflect Nestorian Christian influence, which was demonstrably present along the Sogdian trade networks of Central Asia by the seventh century, or it may carry an entirely non-Christian symbolic function borrowed from Türk or Sasanian iconographic vocabulary.
Sh&K 220 remains poorly attributed within the sequence, its issuer unidentified by name.