World coins chat: Bukhar Khudahs

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There is no trace of the Selucid Empire in the oasis of Bukhara, located Sogdia

Then tetradrachms have been found in the name of Euthydemus indicating that it was later included in the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. Bukhara and Samarkand are then successively included in the Kushan Empire, Hephthalite Empire until the 4th century when the political situation in the oasis of Bukhara changed.
Local leaders for half a millennium were called Chzaovu from the name of their hometown located in the current province of Gansu in China that these nomads had left to cross Central Asia.

We are on the borders of the Sasanid empire and it is now an independent dynasty named Bukhar Khudahs who will reign until the Samanid disaster in the IXth century over this region of Sogdia with Zoroastrianism as religion by fighting to keep their independence against the Umayyad Caliphate.

Bukhar Khudahs drachms feature the image of a ruler's head on the right on the obverse and a fire altar on the reverse.
As well as the Numista catalog, some other websites have cataloged these coins.


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