409, Lot: 869. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Tanka (30mm, 6.67 g, 3h). Citing Chagatai khan Suyurghatmish. No mint, likely Samarkand or a mint in Khorasan. Undated, circa AH 785-790 / AD 1383-1388. 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 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) / Central Naskh legend: al-sultan al-'adil | Suyurghatmish khan | amir a'zam Timur | [Kur]kan al-[...] (The just sultan | Suyurghatmish Khan | great amir Timur | [Kur]kan, the [...]). SICA 9, –; SNA Tübingen –; Album 2374; Zeno 40461. Near EF, toned, some flatness. Exceptional for issue.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 239 (November 2008), no. 71582.