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<p>[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 3795629, member: 102653"]Stunning examples!! Thank you for sharing! That last one is an interesting issue. I also have several coins from King Asbar, unfortunately they are all very bad quality and most suffering from Bronze Disease.</p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1014122[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>What's interesting about these is that they are attributed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Chaghaniyan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Chaghaniyan" rel="nofollow">Principality of Chaghaniyan</a> (al-Saghaniyan) on <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces84855.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces84855.html" rel="nofollow">Numista</a> and given the date 632-790 AD. Wikipedia puts the date of the independent Chaghaniyan Kingdom as "early 7th-century to the late 8th-century".</p><p><br /></p><p>Most other numismatic sources don't make a specific attribution to the Principality of Chaghaniyan; and many use wider date ranges such as c. 5th-9th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>After looking at this <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Transoxiana_8th_century.svg/1920px-Transoxiana_8th_century.svg.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Transoxiana_8th_century.svg/1920px-Transoxiana_8th_century.svg.png" rel="nofollow">map of Transoxiana</a> on Wikipedia, the Chaghaniyan (Saghaniyan on this map) region looks to be in the northern portion of Ferghana, quite a distance from Bukhara. With such localized power of the regional powers it seems unlikely that an independent Chaghaniyan could wield rule over Bukhara long enough to make a full mintage series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quick edit: Something interesting about these Asbar coins are that they are scyphate! That means they are cup-shaped, similar to the Byzantine trachy coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 3795629, member: 102653"]Stunning examples!! Thank you for sharing! That last one is an interesting issue. I also have several coins from King Asbar, unfortunately they are all very bad quality and most suffering from Bronze Disease. [CENTER] [ATTACH=full]1014122[/ATTACH] [/CENTER] What's interesting about these is that they are attributed to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Chaghaniyan']Principality of Chaghaniyan[/URL] (al-Saghaniyan) on [URL='https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces84855.html']Numista[/URL] and given the date 632-790 AD. Wikipedia puts the date of the independent Chaghaniyan Kingdom as "early 7th-century to the late 8th-century". Most other numismatic sources don't make a specific attribution to the Principality of Chaghaniyan; and many use wider date ranges such as c. 5th-9th century. After looking at this [URL='https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Transoxiana_8th_century.svg/1920px-Transoxiana_8th_century.svg.png']map of Transoxiana[/URL] on Wikipedia, the Chaghaniyan (Saghaniyan on this map) region looks to be in the northern portion of Ferghana, quite a distance from Bukhara. With such localized power of the regional powers it seems unlikely that an independent Chaghaniyan could wield rule over Bukhara long enough to make a full mintage series. Quick edit: Something interesting about these Asbar coins are that they are scyphate! That means they are cup-shaped, similar to the Byzantine trachy coins.[/QUOTE]
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