PAIKEND: Anonymous, ca. 640-710, AE cash (1.39g), Zeno-20199, Bukhara tamgha at top, Chinese yuan below, and Sogdian text to left & right, uniface, lovely specimen, delightfully patinated, attractive VF, RR. Alexandr Naymark has read the Sogdian text as PRN / KND, "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: 200-260 USD