Central Asia, Soghd, AE unit, rulers of Fiknan, 7th-8th cent. AD

Medeival Central Asia. Soghd. Rulers of Fiknan (7th – 8th cent. AD)

AE unit (1.67 g)

Male & female busts, all within circle of pellets / tamgha of Fiknan, with additional runas around (or Sogdian legend?)

Fiknan (sometimes written Piknan, Pikkan, or Fikkan) was a local principality (small city-state) in Sogdiana — the region that covered parts of present-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — active mainly during the 7th–8th centuries AD

It was one of the lesser Sogdian domains, alongside more famous ones such as Samarkand, Panjikent, and Bukhara. Each of these polities had its own ruler and minting authority

Near VF. RARE

Z-366035 (this coin)

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