409, Lot: 868. Estimate $75. 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, 5.50 g, 6h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Sabzawar mint. Dated AH 801 (AD 1399/1400). Central Kufic legend: [la ilah] illa Allah, | Muhammad | [rasu]luallah ([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: sanat | duriba | Sabzawar | 801 (Year | Struck at | Sabzawar | 801); marginal Naskh legend, counterclockwise from upper right: [al-sultan al-a'zam Mahmud khan] al-amir al-a'zam Timur [Kurkan] ([The supreme sultan, Mahmud Khan.] The supreme amir, Timur [Kurkan]). SICA 9, –; SNA Tübingen 224 var. (same date, different obv. type); Album 2386; Zeno 40450 (this coin). Good VF, toned, partial flat strike.

From the BRN Collection.

Possibly and issue of Shahrukh, with the date 810 erroneously engraved as 801.