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"King From Qin" Qarakhanid Coins?

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I've been down a rabbithole reading up about the coinage of Xinjiang province in China.

One interesting "source" is current Chinese government propaganda, which claims that there are Qarakhanid coins which recognize Chinese authority. This is highly likely to be misleading, but I was wondering if any experts here can shed some light on the following:


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"...The coins of the Kara-Khanid Khanate were often inscribed with such titles as TavghaqBughra Khan, King from Qin, and King from Qin and the East to indicate that the khanate was part of China...."


What could this refer to? I've been looking for ages on ACSearch, Numista and various Blogs but cannot find a coin with an inscription that says anything like that. "Tavghaq Bughra" may have many spelling variations.

Anyone here have any idea what they are talking about?
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Islamic coins traditionally named two kinds of rulers on their coins: the direct sultan or ruler that issued the coin, and the Caliph which was recognized by that Sultan.

An Islamic Sultanate would never have acknowledged suzerainty under a non-Islamic ruler, like China, on their coins, as it would have been elevating the Emperor of China to the same status as the Caliph. The Emperor might have been physically closer, and more powerful, but he was a pagan infidel, not worthy to share the same piece of metal as the verses of the Quran.

If anything, it's the other way around: The Qarakhanids putting in an ambit claim to be rulers over China and the East.

Qarakhanid coins are a poorly researched arm of Islamic numismatics. While I concede it's entirely possible that some rare and hard-to-find coins might have an inscription that could be force-translated that way, I highly doubt that it happened "often", since that vast majority of Qarakhanid coins seem to have no such inscription.
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