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Rare Yuezhi bronze obol, Termez?, 2nd century BC, Yuezhi in Central Asia

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Bust of King right // Two caps of Dioscuri, crude legends around. 11mm, 0.28 grams. Mitchiner -; Pieper -; Imitations of obols of Eucratides from Southern Uzbekistan, pp.80ff, A. N. Gorin, Studies and Essays in Honour of Valerii P. Nikonorov on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday presented by Friends and Colleagues, Sankt-Peterburg, 2014.

Very obscure and rare imitation of Eucratides, probably minted by Yuezhi around southern Uzbekistan (or further south into Afghanistan and Pakistan). They controlled the region when these coins were struck and are given to Yuezhi by A.N.Gorin in the reference above. 

The Yuezhi were an ancient Indo-European nomadic people originally living in the Gansu–Tarim Basin region of northwestern China during the early first millennium BCE. In the 2nd century BCE, they were defeated and pushed westward by the rising Xiongnu confederation, prompting a large-scale migration across Central Asia. Settling first in the Ili Valley and later in Bactria, the Yuezhi absorbed local populations and culture. One branch, the Kushan Yuezhi, unified the region in the 1st century CE and founded the Kushan Empire, which became a major power linking China, India, and the Mediterranean world through trade and cultural exchange. Under Kushan rule, Buddhism spread widely, Greco-Bactrian traditions persisted, and a distinctive Indo-Central Asian civilization emerged.


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