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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2546822, member: 19463&quot;]The Zeno link has good discussion of why it is probably a leopard down in the comments at the bottom.&nbsp; In short, during the time and place the coin was issued, snow leopards were the common beast.&nbsp; They make the point of the coin being rare because of its size being greater than most but the type is well known.&nbsp; I&#039;d say he example they have has quite a bit of spare metal and the issue is produced by casting so weight control is not always precise.&nbsp; Maybe it is a different denomination, maybe not.&nbsp; This is one I first found in my treasured little book <b>The Ancient Coins of Central Asia</b> by Rtveladze (1987) where it is #54.&nbsp; It is the only coin book I have seen that is trilingual Russian, English and Uzbek.&nbsp; The &quot; newly published book about Chach coins&quot; Zeno mentions is Shagalov and Kuznetsov (2006) listed under 6/8/2. I recommend S&amp;K to anyone who likes these scrappy little things or gets a kick out of English translations by someone for whom English was not the primary language.</p><p>Mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]546724[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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