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Unknown Æ - Wanwan Kangju, 1st period, regular tamgha, without dot

Issuer Kangju Kingdom
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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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.