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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2839662, member: 74834&quot;]Welcome here, AnYangMan, from a fellow Dutchman. How does a guy from the sleepy but venerable town of Vianen (huddled behind the great bridge over the river Lek) start into Chinese coins? </p><p>Well, don’t answer, for I don’t know why I started collecting medieval Central Asian coins, either. I’m not into Chinese coins, but I’m interested in borders, where peoples are meeting and fighting or mingling. So as a welcoming picture I can show you this 10th century cash coin from the farthest West of China, assigned to the region of Semirechye (just west of Kashgar) and issued by the forefathers of the islamic Qarakhanid dynasty. The inscriptions are in Kufi Arabic script, tentatively reading Malik Aram Yinal.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]671472[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Diameter 24.5 mm, weight 4.03 gr. bronze. See <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=962" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=962" rel="nofollow">Zeno #962</a> and <a href="http://www.charm.ru/coins/misc/sogd-arab.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.charm.ru/coins/misc/sogd-arab.shtml" rel="nofollow">here for readings</a> and clarifications. </p><p>This is not an isolated cash coin, for the Sogdian merchants of the 7th and 8th century were issuing cash (round coin, square hole) with Sogdian script from people with curious names like Urk Wartamuk. But afterwards the Qarakhanids went islam and issued islamic-style coinage (that I’m collecting). </p><p>I hope to read more from you on CoinTalk![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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