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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2015052, member: 26302&quot;]Sorry I didn&#039;t notice this thread earlier. Chach is usually lumped in with Sogdia. It was an oasis. It has one of the more diverse pre-islamic coin series there is. Over the course of about 3 centuries they had maybe 40 different AE types issued. All of the have the tamgha, (special mark), of the current leader on the reverse. The snow leapard type of king tarnavch is one of the most common types. I cannot make out the first one really. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for Chach coins, I own tons. Maybe 35 types of AE coins, about 250 altogether. I just don&#039;t have them photographed. </p><p><br /></p><p>The silver one THCoins posted is an extremely nice example of the type. This was a silver copy of a greek coin. Its one of the first coins produced in the region of their own style. Even though its roughly a copy, its easily identifiable as a unique coin. This silver is pretty small, about 12mm usually. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for references, there is actually a nice Russian/English book on Chach coins called Coins of the Chach Oasis, and its available on Ebay at time for like $40. Great deal. Other Sogdian coins are much harder to get references for. The best is Smirnova, 1982, but its in Russian only and very scarce. There are also specific references for Khwarizm coins, (a new silver one was just published this year), and a new small paperback book on cash imitations from Semeriechi. Its in Russian with one page of summary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dang, I wish I was better at coin photography and had the time. Chach is probably the easiest Sogdian coins to get, but there are some grat rarities too. I just bought the &quot;sitting king&quot; type, very rare. I haven&#039;t even got it in the mail yet from Europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few close relatives of Chach coins I happen to have photos of. The first if of a camel with a fire alter on the reverse, the second kind of like THCoins, an imitation of a greek coin with Hercules on the obverse, and Zeus on the reverse. This one, though, is not very common at all, its from SouthSogdia, and its the first time I saw one for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, you do know Sogdians were ethnically Iranian, right? This is why I like the camel coin so much, camel to represent their trade prowess, but fire alter to show they were also Iranians who shared zoroastrianism with their cousins to the SW.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]363593[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]363594[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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