SEMIRECHIE (SE KAZAKSTAN) Turgis Khaqan circa 850 AD 1 cash

DescriptionWe don’t have much in the way of historical information on the Turkish kingdoms of Central Asia in the late ancient period. Chinese records mention them occasionally. Coins of those kingdoms are sometimes struck and other times cast. They had been very rare for a long time, then there was a brief period in the 1990s when some came on the market, then they became rare again.Central Asia is the temperate zone just to the north of the Caucasus, Persia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In ancient times it was a zone with urban and agricultural regions periodically disrupted by invasions of nomads.In BC times the many of the nomads were Scythians. In the early AD period many of the nomads were Huns, then Turks.Ancient Coins includes Greek and Roman coins and those of neighbors and successors, geographically from Morocco and Spain all the way to Afghanistan. Date ranges for these begin with the world’s earliest coins of the 8th century BC to, in an extreme case, the end of Byzantine Empire, 1453 AD.