Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades. Looking For 440s

Meanwhile, I've been trawling through the Zeno database for the last two hours or so. Spoiler: while I wasn't very thorough, I couldn't find much in Central Asia either (and India is too complicated, but my cursory search also did not give any results).

My best result appears to be Ikhshid Tarkhun of Sogd (Zeno 700-710, Regnal Chronologies 700-711, Cambridge History ca. 700-709; the "700" part is quite uncertain, though: as far as I can tell, what is actually known is that he ruled for at least 9-10 years, that his reign ended in 710 or so when the Muslims attacked, and that someone else was still reigning in 698 - i.e. it's perfectly possible that his reign actually started in 699, which would disqualify it for this thread).

The safe option is Justinian II's second reign (708-715). Good luck; those things are rare (the solidi are less rare but obviously more expensive).

There's probably something better that I'm missing so far. (What's the current date attribution on the coin in Ancientnoob's avatar?)

EDIT: fixed the description - it's India that's too complicated, for the most part. The problem is that 700-709 is pretty much right when the Muslims started to overrun India, so the latest pre-Muslim coinages tend to be just too early, and the earliest Muslim coinages just too late.
Also, Zeno's classification for Indian coins tends to focus on the name and place (beyond the largest overarching categories), and I know little enough about Indian history that when I see another name along the lines of "Dothrakis of Marklar" (example obviously made up, but real ones sound pretty similar) I have no idea if it's 7th or 17th century.
EDIT 2: added some details on the Sogdian ruler.

Good idea.

I've actually mentioed, a few posts above, that there is, in fact, a known Sogdiana ruler whose reign apparently pretty much consisted of this decade. It would probably be hard to find any of his coins, however. (There was one on ebay at $50 BIN, but the seller stopped relisting it a few weeks ago, unfortunately.)

If we still don't find anything in a few more months, of course, there must be an awful lot of coins dated along the lines of "ca. 700-950" - so we can probably get away with posting something like that and proceeding that way. (There are, of course, an awful lot more options farther on, and I do not expect another big stumbling block for a while yet.)

Ancientnoob would have probably had some kind of "trick in his hat" too - the period is pretty much his speciality. (in Asia, that is, not Europe). He hadn't been seen for months, however.

...If we're still stuck by then, I'll ask for any second reign Justinian II coins next time I see that one Byzantine coin dealer at the Aurora fair. I probably won't be able to afford a solidus, though (maybe for metal value, and even then barely), and I doubt he has any of the copper.

I've been looking all over VCoins for the last half hour trying to find a 700-709 coin.

The cheapest I found - ironically enough - was an Umayyad dirham, for $50.

You can get an Ikhshid Tarkhun coin too (they spell it "Turkhun"), but it would be even more expensive ($135).

First popcorn.

I hope the eight century does not break the record set by the tenth.