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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2014472, member: 42634&quot;]hi all,</p><p>i recently picked up a couple of chach coins i thought i&#039;d share.&nbsp; these are cheapies i was going to post in the &quot;barrel scrapings&quot; thread, but i don&#039;t remember seeing a chach thread here...so i&#039;ll give them their own.</p><p><br /></p><p>i don&#039;t know much about the chach people, they are usually lumped into the &quot;pre-islamic asian&quot; category and lived in an area that today would be in kazakhstan.&nbsp; they have some pretty interesting looking coins that have some&nbsp; sogdian similarites.&nbsp;&nbsp; THC and MED are experts in these type of coins, i&#039;d love to hear more about them from you guys...or form any of you guys or girls.</p><p><br /></p><p>here&#039;s the first...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/eastern%20coins/chachcoin1_zps88027e41.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/eastern%20coins/chachcoin1_zps88027e41.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/eastern%20coins/chachcoin1_zps88027e41.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>here&#039;s&nbsp; my best shot at attribution..</p><p><br /></p><p>Tuun Qaghan</p><p>650-700 AD</p><p>Chach AE unit (drachm?)</p><p><br /></p><p>o: male and female heads facing</p><p><br /></p><p>r: tamgha (with sogdian legend?)</p><p><br /></p><p>24x20 mm</p><p>2.3 g</p><p><br /></p><p>this is an ugly coin, but i really like it.&nbsp; as bad a shape as it&#039;s in, it&#039;s pretty much going rate for the type.&nbsp;&nbsp; it was 5 bucks well spent to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>i&#039;ll post another later on.&nbsp; feel free to post any chach or related coins here![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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