409, Lot: 860. Estimate $50. Sold for $35. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR 2 Dinars (21mm, 1.94 g, 12h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Kuhgilu (Kuhgiluya) mint. Undated, circa AH 790-807 / AD 1388-1405. 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) / Naskh legend: [... Mahm]ud Kh[an] | Kuhgilu (three annulets) | [am]ir Timur | Kurkan | [uncertain] ([... Mahm]ud Kh[an] | Kuhgilu (three annulets) | [am]ir Timur | Kurkan | [uncertain]). SICA 9, –; cf. Album 2382; Zeno –. VF, crude strike. Very rare.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 238 (August 2008), no. 725 (69969).