Coins of the Western Turkic Qaghanate with a title “Tardu-Qaghan”

Abstract

In the process of studying the coins of the Western Turkic Qaghanate (568-740), a number of questions remain that are difficult for the present moment to give a definitive answer. Especially, one of such main questions is the question of the role and place of the coins, the legends of which reflected the supreme titles of the Qaghanate and whether they had circulated throughout its territory. Summarizing our short analysis on some issues of the Western Türkic Qaghanate and its coinage on the example of coins with the title “Tardu Qaghan”, we state that so far some of the issues that need to be covered in the history of this Qaghanate remain in the center of attention of researchers. We hope that with the increase in the number of numismatic finds these issues will be resolved. In particular, if it is possible to find the coins of the second type that are better preserved, which are related to Tardu Qaghan (576-583; 600-603), a lot of questions on this issue will be solved.

Keywords

• pre-Islamic Central Asia
• Western Turkic Qaghanate
• qaghans
• tardu qaghan
• old Turkic coins
• Chach (Tashkent)