
Horse standing right, Sogdian legends: xwb prn skδk ("glorious ruler, Ashkade") // Blank. 19mm, 1.44 grams. Smirnova 1457; cf.Zeno 18769.
According to Chinese "Tang-shu" Si-gin-ti and the Arab author al-Taberi "al-Ashkand" was the name of a pre-Islamic ruler of Nakhshab or Kesh. The uniface type is
These coins are the later issues of the "horse right" series from Nakhshab in South Soghd.