Pre-Islamıc Coins of Bukhara with Double Descriptions

DOI 10.52773/tsuull.uzlc.2020.2/VKMT4351

Abstract

Among coins of Pre-Islamic Central Asia with double descriptions,
most coins from Chach (Tashkent), Sogd and Tokharistan (Southern
Uzbekistan – Southern Tajikistan – Northern Afghanistan) were relatively
well-researched, while coins from Otrar (Southern Kazakhstan) and
Bukhara belong to slightly studied, even almost not-researched group of
coins. Bukhara, in the Early Middle Ages, due to its position, at the junction
of nomadic pastoral and sedentary agricultural areas, was one of the key
regions of Transoxiana (Amu-Darya – Syr-Darya). If Chach, Otrar and
Ferghana were located directly in the contact zone, then Bukhara was
located near the routes of movement of nomadic tribes from the Syr-Daria
and Yettisuv basin to the south-western regions of Central Asia.