PAIKEND: Anonymous, ca. 700-710, AE cash (1.43g), Zeno-20199 (this piece), Bukhara tamgha at top, Chinese yuan below, Sogdian text to left & right / cross-symbol left & right of square hole, lovely Fine to VF, RRR. Alexandr Naymark has read the Sogdian text as prn / kind, "city of glory", and suggested that this was a local issue under a Christian ruler, in opposition to the kings of Bukhara (see Zeno-30858 for this comment).
Estimate: 450- 550 USD