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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4255489, member: 82322&quot;]This coin has an unusual scalloped rim:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1085190[/ATTACH] </p><p>Bukhara city of Paykend/Paikend, circa 720-750s AD?, AE, 18mm, 1.31 g</p><p>Obv: crowned facing head (Byzantine imitation?)</p><p>Rev: &quot;dancing man&quot; tamgha.</p><p>cf. Naymark, “Copper Coins of the Last Bukharkhudas”, ONS Journal 158, Winter 1998/9</p><p>cf. Central Asia » Soghd » Bukhara <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2714" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2714" rel="nofollow">&#039;Dancing man&#039; tamgha</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This was minted in the part of the world that is now Uzbekistan.</p><p><br /></p><p>The edge scalloped and the coin holed, apparently in antiquity.&nbsp; I suspect to make the coin a tool, for example for pastry-decorating.&nbsp; Someone on Zeno suggested this was a tool to remove fleas from hair.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are Roman coins with similar edge markings, for example the coins in <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=254865" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=254865" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=254865</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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