Download or read book In the Treasure Room of the Sakra King written by Waleed Ziad and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable discoveries of over 300 new varieties of local copper currency from the Sakra region in northwestern Pakistan, covering a 700-year period, have opened up new vistas in the study of Gandhara in late antiquity. This monograph introduces the native Sakra copper coinage, which can be dated from ca. 500 to 1100, corresponding to the Nezak, Turk Shahi, Hindu Shahi, and Ghaznavid periods.