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UYGHUR KHAGANATE: Boquq Qaghan, 797-808, AE cash (2.60g), Fine

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Chinese Coins - Early Imperial Start Price:55.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 100.00 USD
UYGHUR KHAGANATE: Boquq Qaghan, 797-808, AE cash (2.60g), Fine
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UYGHUR KHAGANATE: Boquq Qaghan, 797-808, AE cash (2.60g), cf. Zeno-226889, written in Uyghur script, words reading from right to left: KWYL PYLK' - TNKRY -PWXWX `WYXWR - X'X'N (Kol bilga Tangri Boquq Uigur qagan) // `YL TWTMYS - YRLXYNK', moderate to heavy smoothing, obverse somewhat legible, outline of text visible on reverse, very rare, Fine. See Francois Thierry's "Les Monnies de Boquq Qaghan des Ouighours (795-808)" ["The coins of Boquq, qaghan of the Uighurs (795-808)"] in: Turcica, vol. 30, 1998, pp. 263-278. The Uyghur Khaganate was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries. They were a tribal confederation under the Orkhon Uyghur nobility, referred to by the Chinese as the Jiu Xing ("Nine Clans"), a calque of the name Toquz Oghuz.