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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1855844, member: 26302&quot;]Here is one I bought right before my self imposed coin purchase ban, (well.....more of a strong suggestion really). Like the Kai Yuan Tong Bao with tamgha, its a cash like coin made in Sogdia, (in this case in the city of Paikend near Bukhara), under the rule of the Chinese. This is kind of the second type of cash coin made. If you remember the first one, it simply copied the obverse type of the Tang dynasty Chinese, and placed their own tamgha, (symbol), on the reverse. Well this one, instead of copy chinese letters, replaces them with four local tamghas in the chinese symbols place.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]310955[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Just thought I would show this to anyone who liked the first type, as it shows the progression of taking chinese style coins and making them their own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like other Sogdian cash pieces, you can see how the center hole was not cleaned out. Chinese coins always have the center hole cleaned out, since they used this square hole intricately in the manufacturing process. The Sogdians, though, did not know how this was done and was just copying the shapes. Heck, there are even Sogdian cash pieces where the center hole is completely filled with metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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