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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1392162, member: 26302&quot;]From <a href="http://www.kroraina.com/ca/c_bukhara.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kroraina.com/ca/c_bukhara.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kroraina.com/ca/c_bukhara.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The coins of Bukhara Sogd with a camel on the obverse, and on the reverse – a fire altar {Table 119, 20-24} or a Sogdian legend {Table 199, 25} belong to the last quarter – the beginning of the VIII c. The attempts [Shishkin, 1963. p. 63] to date them on the basis on the altar’s appearance alone, outside of their numismatic and archaeological context, led to an unjustifiably early dates (III – the beginning of the IV c.]. This series and its dating is not specially discussed in the &quot;Summary catalogue of the Sogdian coins&quot; of O.I. Smirnova. They were not included in the catalogue part [Smirnova, 1981. pp. 28-30]. The coins with a Sogdian legend on the reverse [Smirnova, 1981. pp. 312-313] and the coins with a square hole and a legend, according to Smirnova [Smirnova, 1981. pp. 314-315] of Farnbag, are classified as belonging to the group of early coins of the Western Sogd, which precede the Bukhara coins of the Chinese type with the legend &quot;kaj juan tun bao&quot; on the obverse and a Bukhara symbol on the reverse. A more definitive dating that those of Shishkin and Smirnova is given by Musakaeva [Musakaeva, 1985. p. 82] – IV-V c., but again there is no detailed argumentation. The archaeological-stratigraphical data for the coins with a camel reveal a rather later date – from the last quarter of the VII c. to the beginning of the VIII c., but the chronological frame for this series is still uncertain&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So, no definitive date. Its unfortunate its not in Smirnova 1981, but I will check Smirnova 1963 tonight. Based upon its style, I definitely would argue its a later coin versus earlier, but that is just based on fabric.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did find another website with this listed. They listed the type as common, but right below it they listed another type as extremely rare, (and I own 5 of them), so take their rarity scale with a grain of salt. Of these coins, I have seen 4 for sale, and have bought the top 3 of them. To me they are scarcer coins at least within the Sogdian series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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