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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3801313, member: 84744&quot;]What a great post &amp; thread - I&#039;ve only now had time to have a thorough look through it.&nbsp; Thanks for the link to the Smirnova book, I see they have some other neat coin books available too.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a generalist collector I&#039;m trying to get a representative sampling of coins from the area over its long history.&nbsp; Here&#039;s some of what I have so far:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014817[/ATTACH] </p><p>Tetradrachm, based on a Bactrian issue of Euthydemos, c. 100 BCE.&nbsp; Yuezhi?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014819[/ATTACH] </p><p>AR obol, Uncertain date, maybe c. 1-100 CE?, Samarqand area, also ultimately derived from a Seleukid model. 1.00g, 16mm.&nbsp; Slightly scyphate.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014852[/ATTACH] </p><p>AR obol, c. 200-300 CE (?), Bust/archer type, also derived from a Seleukid model.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014853[/ATTACH] </p><p>Asbar, Bukhara, c. 3rd-6th c. CE, prior to Gökturk overlordship</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014854[/ATTACH] </p><p>Samarqand: Tarkhun (c. 700-710)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014855[/ATTACH] </p><p>Bukhara: Bukhar-Hudat in the name of the Abbasid caliph al-Mahdhi (775-85)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014856[/ATTACH] </p><p>Samanid: Isma&#039;il ibn Ahmad (892-907), dated AH 280 (893-4), Samarqand mint[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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