Ancient - Central Asia SAMARKAND: Anonymous, ca. 640-700, AE cash (4.64g), Smirnova-43/47, Zeno-29261, based on the Tang dynasty Chinese legend: kai yuan tong bao // Samarkand tamgha at the bottom, Sogdian word bgy ("ruler") at the top; very rare type, with none on CoinArchives but about 15 now posted on Zeno, mostly from sources in Central Asia and Xinjiang in China, choice VF.































