Watch List notes:

Silk Road Region, local issue AV Bracteate. Circa 5th-8th centuries AD. Imitating an early Byzantine AV solidus. Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger and shield decorated with degraded horseman motif / Incuse of obverse. Cf. Göbl, Dokumente pl. 87, B1; cf. Stein (Wang) p. 239 = BM IA.XII.c.1; V. Raspopova, "Gold Coins and bracteates from Pendjikent," in Coins, Art, and Chronology (Vienna, 1999), pp. 453-60; cf. A. Juliano and J. Lerner, eds. Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China (New York, 2001), pp. 271-91; MACW –; cf. CNG E-436, lot 322. 0.55g, 17mm.

Very Fine; pierced.