This Copper 17 x 17 mm with a design of Bust / Tamgha coin was issued in the name of Tudun Satachari in 7th-8th centuries AD in the Chach region, Transoxiana.
The central city of Chach region is Tashkent (石國) City. It has a Sogdian legend of "Tudun Satachari, Ruler of Chach". Cleaned. Clear design.
The Numista rarity intex of Numista-197983, is "95". Rare coin.
Tashkent was first settled some time between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC by ancient people as an oasis on the Chirchik River. Some scholars believe that a "Stone
Tower" mentioned by Ptolemy and by other early accounts of travel on the Silk Road referred to this settlement. This tower is said to have marked the midway point
between Europe and China. Other scholars, however, disagree with this identification, though it remains one of four most probable sites for the Stone Tower.
In pre-Islamic and early Islamic times, the town and the province were known as Chach. By the 7th century AD, Chach had more than 30 towns and a net work of over
50 canals, forming a trade center between the Sogdians and Turkic nomads. In 558-603, Chach was part of the Turkic Kaganate. In 628, a Buddhist Chinese monk
Xuanzang (玄奘) arrived in Ming Bulak.
The Turkic rulers of Chach minted their coins with the inscription on the obverse side of the "lord of the Khakan money (mid-8th century)"; with a inscription in the ruler
Turk (7th century), in Nudjket in the middle of the 8th century, coins were issued with the obverse inscription "Nanchu (Banchu) Ertegin sovereign".
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I will attach a share free historical map of "Transoxiana in the 8th Century". Tashkent City is located at (41.3370, 69.2390) in the google location system.
I will attach some photos of the city from the google map system and from the google street view system.
Copper 17 x 17 mm coin. Cleaned. Clear design. Rare coin.
Design : Tamgha with a Sogdian legend of "Tudun Satachari, Ruler of Chach". / Bust of ruler partially facing right, wearing crown.
Catalog number is Sh&K-207, MA-(no listed), Zeno-230741, and Numista-197983.
Sh&K catalogue is "Catalogue of coins of Chach, III-VIII A.D.", written by V.D.Shagalov and A.V.Kuznetsov, Edition FAN Academy of science of the Republic of
Uzbekistan, written in Russian and in English, printed in Tashkent, in 2006.
This is a very nice catalogue for the research of Chach coins. I recommended getting it.
MA catalogue is "Oriental coins and their values, The Ancient & Classical World. 600 BC-AD 650", written by Michael Mitchiner, published by Hawkins Publications
in London in 1978.
Zeno on line catalogue is "Zeno. Ru - Oriental Coins Database".
Numista catalogue is "Coin Catalogue-Numista" , a unique platform to learn, collect, swap and share about numismatics
Size : 17 x 17 mm. Weight : 1.14 gr.