PRE-ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIAN COINS
    There are a number of geographic ragged areas in English language numismatic publications.  Indonesia is one, and pre-Islamic central Asia is another.  Most of the research on the latter is in Russian, a bit in Turkish, a trace in Chinese.  I suspect there is some in Farsi as well, but none of us in the English language ghetto ever hear word one about Farsi historical investigations.  Anyway, some of this material has been coming out on the market since the dissolution of the USSR, and formerly $300 coins are now becoming reasonable.  We all await the publication of a book in English (French or German will do in a pinch), no matter how sketchy and provisional, on what seems to be an extensive and varied series of coins issued over a vast stretch of territory, for perhaps as long as a millennium.

CHACH (Uzbekistan), Asbar?, c. 500 AD, AE15, bust R / legend around tamgha, brief glances at the references show discrepancies of several hundred years in the dating - looks like no one knows for sure, Zeimal-98, VI-3, G/VG $45.00 sold
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CHACH (Uzbekistan), c. 500 AD?, AE18, head L / tamgha.  See http://www.sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/chach/coins.html #3, which notes that the type began c. 100 AD and continued, increasingly barbarized, for several centuries.  Zeimal-94, pl. II-7, crude, obv. looks aG, rev. is F, $45.00 sold
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277-333. SEMIRECHIE (Kazakstan), Turgis Khaqan, c. 850 AD, 1 cash, Jen-920, Kamyshev-24, Sogdian: Turkish Pny / tamgha, 24.3mm, VG/aVF $275.00
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273-339. SEMIRECHIE (Kazakstan), Turgis Khaqan, c. 850 AD, 25mm bronze, Jen-920, Kamyshev-24, Sogdian: Turkish Pny / tamgha, 21.5mm, 2.3g, porous G $150.00
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SEMIRECHIE (Kazakstan), Turgis Khaqan, c. 850 AD, 25mm bronze, Jen-920, Kamyshev-24, Sogdian: Turkish Pny / tamgha, aVF $300.00 sold
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UIGHURISTAN, Yihudu, 12th c., 22mm bronze, Jen-922, F $250.00 sold
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