SILK ROAD REGION, local issue, AV bracteate, 5th-8th cent. AD. Imitation of a solidus. Obv./ Helmeted and cuir. bust facing, holding spear. Rev./ Incuse of obverse. Göbl, Dokumente, - (cf. pl. 87, B1); Ying, Silk Road, - (cf. group 3). 0,60 g. Pierced. Cracked.

Cf. Stephen Album, auction 30, 18 january 2018, 183, who considered this type of coin as a burial piece. See also Thierry & Morrisson, Sur les monnaies byzantines trouvées en Chine, in RN (1994), p. 109-145.

Fine / Fine