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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3198406, member: 84744&quot;]I don&#039;t have a Hyrcodes (though I would like one!), but I do have an issue from nearby Samarkand from roughly the same period:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]827237[/ATTACH]</p><p>It&#039;s clearly a descendant of imitations of Seleukid models, but it&#039;s unclear how early it is.&nbsp; If very early (e.g. 200 BCE) it&#039;s probably a Saka issue before they migrated south into India.&nbsp; If later it could be Yuezhi or another nomadic tribe, e.g. Kangju.&nbsp; (The horse depiction suggests it is some steppe people or other.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a later (c. 300?) Sogdian issue possibly related to yours:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]827240[/ATTACH]</p><p>The legend is in Sogdian and as far as I know hasn&#039;t been deciphered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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