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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4417156, member: 82322&quot;]Here is a Sogdian coin with similar reversed swastika:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1108315[/ATTACH] </p><p>CENTRAL ASIA, Chach, pitchfork tamgha, 7th-8th century AD, AE, 17mm, 1.43 g</p><p>Obv: Ruler (Satar or Sochak?) Three quarters left, wearing pendelum earrings and large cap decorated (with star and crescent?). Dot on chin. All within circle of dots.</p><p>Rev: Sogdian legend <i>xwbw st&#039;r or stcr</i> “This is the coin of the Tegin of the Chach Ruler”; trident tamgha; on top of the tamgha a swastika.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although this ruler wears a hat with a star-and-crescent, that design was not yet an Islamic symbol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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