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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3540722, member: 82322&quot;]The attribution to the Western Turks comes from a short article by Dietrich Schnädelbach in <a href="http://orientalnumismaticsociety.org/JONS/Files/ONS_169.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://orientalnumismaticsociety.org/JONS/Files/ONS_169.pdf" rel="nofollow">ONS Newsletter 169</a> (Spring 2001).&nbsp; The claim is that these are year 11 Balkh mint coins, and the Western Turks took over Balkh in 589 or 590 AD.&nbsp; But... the ear ornament looks exactly like Arab-Sasanian coins post 650 AD.&nbsp; Thus the coins bear the wrong date, and must be imitations.&nbsp; The fire attendants on the reverse cross their arms left-over-right which is the opposite of Sasanian style.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Khodadad Rezakhani <a href="https://www.academia.edu/32671225/From_the_Kushans_to_the_Western_Turks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/32671225/From_the_Kushans_to_the_Western_Turks" rel="nofollow">manages two paragraphs</a> giving all that is known.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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