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| Issuer | Kangju Kingdom |
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| Year | 201-601 |
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| Reference(s) | Sh&K#1 |
| Obverse description | Diademed bust of a ruler with long, flowing hair shown in left-facing profile. The effigy is rendered in a schematic Central Asian style typical of Sogdian-influenced coinage, with the hair depicted in striated waves falling behind the neck. The facial features are boldly modeled with a prominent nose and defined chin. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Reverse script | Sogdian |
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| Additional information |
The Kangju were a nomadic confederacy controlling the middle Syr Darya region whose political history remains poorly reconstructed — Chinese dynastic sources mention them intermittently, but coinage attribution is still largely unsettled. The "Wanwan" designation in this series reflects the modern scholarly convention rather than any ancient self-identification. The tamgha classification system used by Shagalov and Kuznetsov remains the primary framework for sorting these bronzes, which circulated across a span of four centuries too long to assign meaningful reign attributions.