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Message:: [QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4417610, member: 74834"]This is a coin that's a lot like [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER] 's, also from Chach, and in fact it's from about the same time as the OP: 7th-8th century. [ATTACH=full]1108370[/ATTACH] Chach, 600-750. Ruler Nirtanak. Obv. Front. head with large earrings and glasses-like eyes, swastika to the right. Rev. Tamgha 6 with text. 20 mm, 2.18 gr. Shagalov & Kuznetsov # 201. I have Turco-Hephthalite coin like [USER=98035]@Finn235[/USER] has. No swastika, but it has a flying camel countermark, which is something, too. [ATTACH=full]1108373[/ATTACH] AR drachm, ‘Yabghu of Tokharestan’ type, 7th century. Good silver imitation of a drachm of Hormizd IV. Obv. ‘Hormizd IV’ to the right, his name coarsely written, his crown altered. Countermarks: 1. winged camel, 2. vague text. Rev. fire altar with attendants, unreadable text. Countermark 3. (Pahlavi?) text. 32.5 mm, 2.88 gr. Göbl? Zeno #168247, 162881, 162876, 162875.[/QUOTE]