409, Lot: 873. Estimate $50. Sold for $30. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR 2 Dinars (18mm, 1.41 g, 8h). Citing Chagatai khan Suyurghatmish. Shabankara mint. Dated AH 789 (AD 1387/8). 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 |
'Umar |
['Uthman] |
['Ali] / Central Naskh legend:
duriba |
Shabankara |
789 (Struck at | Shabankara | 789); marginal Naskh legend, counterclockwise from upper right:
[al-sultan al-'adil Suyurghatmish khan] yarlighi, khallada Allah mulkahu, amir Timur [Kur]kan [uge manu] ([The just sultan Suyurghatmish Khan] by the order (of), may God perpetuate his reign, amir Timur [Kur]kan, [my word]). SICA 9, –; Album 2367; Zeno 132888. Near EF, toned, usual flat strike. Rare.
From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 240 (January 2009), no. 73992.