Obverse: Crown with tridents and lion head. Brahmi inscription around (starting 11:00): sri-hitivira kharalava parame – svara sri sahi tiginadeva karita ("His Excellency, Iltäbär of Khalaj, worshipper of the Supreme God, His Excellency the King, the divine Lord Tegin had minted this coin"). Inside, Bactrian inscription: σρι Ϸανο Sri Shaho (His Excellency the King").[1]
Reverse: Portrait of the Iranian fire god Adur. Pahlavi inscription (starting 12:00) hpt-hpt t’ - tkyn’ hwl’s s’n MLKA ("Tegin, King of Khorasan, [year] 77). The date is in the post-Yazdegerd III era, and corresponds to 728 CE.[1][2]
The Khalaj (Bactrian: χαλασσ, romanized: Xalass; Persian: خلجها, romanized: Xalajhâ) are a Turkic ethnic group who mainly reside in Iran.[3] In Iran they still speak the Khalaj language, although most of them are Persianized.[4]
- ^ a b "The Countenance of the other (The Coins of the Huns and Western Turks in Central Asia and India) 2012-2013 exhibit: Chorasan Tegin Shah". Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. 2012–2013. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ ALRAM, MICHAEL (2014). "From the Sasanians to the Huns New Numismatic Evidence from the Hindu Kush". The Numismatic Chronicle. 174: 279. ISSN 0078-2696. JSTOR 44710198.
- ^ "Enver Konukçu, Halaç (in Turkish)". "Al-Masudi saying that they were of Turkic origin. Istakhri says that they have lived between India and Sijistan since ancient times and that they are Turkic in shape, dress, language. Ibn Khordadbeh introduces them as a Turkic tribe living near the Karluks in the steppes of Central Asia. Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi saying that they were of White Hun origin."
- ^ "ḴALAJ ii. Ḵalaji Language" - Encyclopaedia Iranica, September 15, 2010 (Michael Knüppel)