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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 7703851, member: 84744&quot;]I love this thread!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently bought what I think is a related coin, an AE pul from the Golden Horde or the Giray Khans.&nbsp; Some of these ([USER=57364]@THCoins[/USER] links the page above) have two fish on them.&nbsp; This one appears to have three:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321955[/ATTACH] </p><p>I&#039;m not sure what the symbol on the reverse is, but it may be Giray.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>An idea: this reminds me of the obscure series of small AEs from the Kashmir Smast caves, thought to be issued by an autonomous Kidarite/Hunnic group (see Nasim Khan, Coins of Kashmir Smast).&nbsp; I have this scorpion example:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321956[/ATTACH] </p><p>All they issued were these little copper coins, and many had Kushan related images - there&#039;s a huge variety!</p><p><br /></p><p>To add something from Central Asia:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321957[/ATTACH] </p><p>Chach, 2nd to 4th c. CE - Head of ruler left / Tamga with two dots and Sogdian legend around.&nbsp; This may have been issued by the Kangchu; on <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=913&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=913&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">zeno</a>, some of these are attributed to a ruler called &#039;Wanwan&#039; (from reading the Sogdian legend).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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