409, Lot: 871. Estimate $50. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Miri (18mm, 1.49 g, 6h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Samarkand mint. Dated AH 790 (AD 1388/9). Central Kufic legend: la ilah illa Allah, | Muhammad rasulu- | allah 790 (There is no deity except God, | Muhammad is the messenger of | God 790); marginal Naskh legend, counterclockwise from top: duriba | [Sa-] | [mar-] | qan (Struck at | [Sa-] | [mar-] | qan) / Within octolobe, Naskh legend: sultan | Mahmud Khan yarlighi | amir Timur | Kurkan uge manu (Sultan | Mahmud Khan by the order of | Amir Timur | Kurkan my word). Komaroff pl. 37, 2; SNA Tübingen 1031–2; SICA 9, 845; Album 2381. Good VF, deeply toned.

From the BRN Collection.

This coin was struck at Timur's capital, Samarkand.