Central Asia, Hunnic Tribes, Silk Road Region, Local Issue (Circa 5th-8th Centuries) AE Bracteate. RRR
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Central Asia, Hunnic Tribes, Silk Road Region, Local Issue (Circa 5th-8th Centuries) AE Bracteate.
0.55gm, 21.1mm, found in Silk Road region, imitating Byzantine.
Two Facing busts, each wearing chlamys and simple crown with cross / Incuse of obverse.
Zeno-370739 (It's me there). Extremely fine. Holed as could have been used as jewellery price. Finding earthen deposit. Very attractive & very rare.
Please see Cf. Göbl, Dokumente pl. 87, B1, cf. Stein (Wang) p. 239 = BM IA.XII.c.1; V. Raspopova, "Gold Coins and bracteates from Pendjikent," in Coins, Art, and Chronology, pp. 453-460; cf. A. Juliano and J. Lerner, eds. Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, pp. 271-291.