409, Lot: 856. Estimate $100.
Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Tanka (28mm, 5.84 g, 1h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Hilla 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 Bakr |
'Umar |
'Uthman |
'Ali / Central Naskh legend:
duriba al- |
al-sultan Mahmud |
khan (three annulets) Hilla |
amir Timur |
Kurkan (Struck at al- | sultan Mahmud | khan (three annulets) Hilla | amir Timur | Kurkan). SNA Tübingen –; SICA 9, –; Album 2379; Zeno –. VF, toned, small area of flat strike. Very rare.
From the BRN Collection.
