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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3794422, member: 82322"]I saw your coin on Reddit. Is this a collecting area for you?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a Sogdian cash coin in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1013823[/ATTACH] </p><p>AE coin (22 mm., 3.8 gram) from Eastern Sogdiana in Central Asia (on the territory of modern day Uzbekistan) of king Gurek (710(?)-738 A.D.).</p><p>Obverse: Sogdian legend <i>wr'kk mlk</i> "Ishkhid Gurek (Urak)" around the square hole.</p><p>Reverse: Tamghas on both sides of the square hole.</p><p>Cataloged in O. Smirnova “Catalog of Sogdian Coins …”, as #359 and in <a href="http://sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/sogdiana/e_coins3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/sogdiana/e_coins3.html" rel="nofollow">http://sogdcoins.narod.ru</a> as ES19. cf. Central Asia » Soghd » Samarqand » Ikhshids of Samarqand » <a href="http://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2744" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2744" rel="nofollow">Hirak/Gurak</a> </p><p>Note: See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurak" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurak" rel="nofollow">Gurek</a> for more info on Gurek</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, O. Smirnova is Olga Smirnova, a "she" not a "he".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3794422, member: 82322"]I saw your coin on Reddit. Is this a collecting area for you? I have a Sogdian cash coin in my collection. [ATTACH=full]1013823[/ATTACH] AE coin (22 mm., 3.8 gram) from Eastern Sogdiana in Central Asia (on the territory of modern day Uzbekistan) of king Gurek (710(?)-738 A.D.). Obverse: Sogdian legend [I]wr'kk mlk[/I] "Ishkhid Gurek (Urak)" around the square hole. Reverse: Tamghas on both sides of the square hole. Cataloged in O. Smirnova “Catalog of Sogdian Coins …”, as #359 and in [URL='http://sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/sogdiana/e_coins3.html']http://sogdcoins.narod.ru[/URL] as ES19. cf. Central Asia » Soghd » Samarqand » Ikhshids of Samarqand » [URL='http://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2744']Hirak/Gurak[/URL] Note: See [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurak']Gurek[/URL] for more info on Gurek By the way, O. Smirnova is Olga Smirnova, a "she" not a "he".[/QUOTE]
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