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CENTRAL ASIA: Byzantine style, ca. 7th-8th century, AV burial piece (0.61g), crude VF

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CENTRAL ASIA: Byzantine style, ca. 7th-8th century, AV burial piece (0.61g), crude VF
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CENTRAL ASIA: Byzantine style, ca. 7th-8th century, AV burial piece (0.61g), A-3850, design derived from one of the late 6th century Byzantine emperors, perhaps Maurice Tiberius (582-602), standard design (facing bust // angel with cross and globus cruciger), blundered legends on both sides; looped for attachment, crude VF, R. Gold burial pieces come almost exclusively from Central Asia and adjacent areas south and east centered around the Silk Road. They are either bracteate or two-sided, and we now believe that they first appeared in about the 4th or 5th century with the design derived from Roman solidi, then became relatively common during the 6th-8th century based on Byzantine solidi, with the Byzantine style likely continuing to be copied into the 10th century or even later. Another group are based on Sogdian or Hunnic models and likely dated from the 7th to 9th or 10th century. We have also seen examples derived from Samanid, Seljuq, Khwarizmshah, Chaghatayid, and generic Arabic dinars, presumably from the 10th to at least the 14th century. These were normally used as burial pieces, places upon the deceased.