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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2489523, member: 26302&quot;]Yes, thanks, bracteates is what I was trying to think of earlier. I have one bracteate, which themselves are pretty rare. I think I have seen 3 for sale in the last decade that I have noticed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with imitative gold coins is proving where they were minted. If this coin didn&#039;t have the Markov pedigree, it would have been harder to associate this with Central Asia, as opposed to somewhere else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, yes, maybe I stretch it a little with &quot;Sogdian&quot;. By the time this coin was minted, the Sogdians were still the predominant people&#039;s in the region, but Turks and Hepthalites mainly controlled their city leadership. So the government power was no longer Sogdian, but the people remained the same. I choose to do this intentionally with Sogdia, since there were Seleucids, Bactians, Yeuh Chi, Kidarites, Hepthalites, Turks, Chinese, and muslim rulers interspersed throughout the period when they struck pre-Islamic coinage. Therefor, it simply gets to be to arbitrary to try to assign who might have been in charge if not Sogdians at the time. Therefor, I just assign the coins to the people or region separate from political control.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its a very messy political mess to deal with, coupled with the fact in many, (most), cases we simply do not have any hard facts to work on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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