409, Lot: 870. Estimate $50. 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 Miri (17mm, 1.38 g, 3h). Citing Chagatai khan Suyurghatmish. Samarkand mint. Dated AH 785 (AD 1383/4). Central Kufic legend: la ilah illa Allah, | Muhammad rasulu- | allah 785 (There is no deity except God, | Muhammad is the messenger of | God 785); marginal Naskh legend, counterclockwise from top: duriba | [Sa-] | mar- | qan (Struck at | [Sa-] | mar- | qan) / Within octolobe, Naskh legend: Suyu- | yarlighi amir | -rghatmish khan | Timur Kur(kan) | uge manu (Suyu- | by order (of) amir | -rghatmish Khan | Timur Kur(kan) | my word). Komaroff pl. 37, 1; SNA Tübingen 1020–2; SICA 9, 834–7; Album 2375. Good VF, toned.

From the BRN Collection.

This coin is from Timur's earliest coinage, struck at his capital, Samarkand.