409, Lot: 848. Estimate $50. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Tanka (24mm, 6.00 g, 10h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Aydhaj (Izeh) mint. Dated AH (8)03 (AD 1400/1). 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: sana(?) | [...] | [...] | thelath (struck | [...] | [...] | three) / Within hexafoil, Naskh legend: al-sultan Mahmud | Khan, amir Timur | dariba Aydhaj Kurkan | [...] (al-sultan Mahmud | Khan, amir Timur \ Kurkan | stuck (at) Aydhaj | [...]); uncertain marginal Naskh legend. SICA 9, –; Album 2386; Zeno –. VF, toned. Very rare.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 236 (August 2008), no. 805209.

The title, name, and epithet of Timur on this coin is in three lines, generally taking up the lower left quadrant of the reverse. Timur's name actually appears at the top, but his title, amir, which is in the second line, actually begins further to the right, so is listed first. His epithet, Kurkan, is in the third line, which is actually to the left of the mint name, Aydhaj.