409, Lot: 846. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Akçe (17mm, 1.66 g, 1h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Arzinjan (Erzincan) mint. Undated, circa AH 795-807 / AD 1393-1405. Central Kufic legend: la ilah illa | Allah, Muhammad | rasuluallah (There is no deity except | God, Muhammad | is the messenger of God); marginal Naskh legend, counterclockwise from top: Abu | 'Umar | 'Uthman | ['Ali] / Naskh legend: al-sultan | Mahmud Khan, (al-)'adil | amir (3 annulets) Timur | Kurkan duriba | Arzinjan (al-sultan | Mahmud Khan, (the) just | amir (3 annulets) Timur | Kurkan. Struck [at] | Arzinjan). SICA 9, 122–3; Album A2384; Zeno 174273. Near EF, toned, small area of flat strike. Rare.

From the BRN Collection.

There are traces of numerals at the bottom of the reverse legend, likely a blundered date inscribed by an engraver who was copying the type from the previous Eretnid coinage at Arzinjan (see Zeno 174273 comments).