409, Lot: 859. Estimate $125. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Tanka (25mm, 6.27 g, 9h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Shaykh abu-Ishaq (Kazirun) mint. Undated, circa AH 795-807 / AD 1393-1405. Central Kufic legend, in spiral from lower right: la ilah | illa Allah, | Muhammad | rasulu- | allah (There is no deity | except God, | Muhammad | is the messenger | of God); marginal Naskh legend, counterclockwise from top: Abu Bakr al-Sadiq | ['Umar al-Faruq] | ['Uthman al-'Affan] | 'Ali al-Murtada (Abu Bakr, the faithful witness | ['Umar, the discriminator] | ['Uthman, the chaste] | 'Ali, the chosen) / Within octolobe, Naskh legend: al-sultan Mahmud khan | (rosette) duriba (rosette) | amir Timur (three annulets) Kurkan | (rosette) shaykh abu Ishaq (rosette) | khallada Allah [mulkahu] (al-sultan Mahmud khan | (rosette) struck at (rosette) | amir Timur (three annulets) Kurkan | (rosette) shaykh abu Ishaq (rosette) | may God perpetuate [his reign]); date in Naskh in margin (mostly obscured). SICA 9, –; Album 2386; Zeno –. VF, toned. Rare.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 231 (January 2008), no. 60507.