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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3052862, member: 84744"]The short answer is we have no clue! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Except that he ruled in the Silk Road area sometime before his city's fall to Muslim armies in the early 8th century, in or near the current location of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Turkic? Sogdian? Maybe. There's a good post on the coins of Chach <a href="http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=36008.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=36008.0" rel="nofollow">here</a>.  I quote: "Shagalov and Kuznetsov suggest that the hair style conforms to rock paintings at Balalyk-Tepe. If so, we may be dealing with a Buddhist king with strong Chinese influence. The crown with the moon-shaped central ornament is back." (That crown is also seen on another ruler with the Turkic title "tegin".) Here's the coin with reverse included (showing Nirt's tamgha):[ATTACH=full]764250[/ATTACH] And here's the Nirtanak (a different ruler, so a different tamgha):[ATTACH=full]764251[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]