409, Lot: 874. Estimate $50. Sold for $55. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Tanka (25mm, 6.11 g, 8h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Shiraz mint. Struck circa AH 795-807 / AD 1393-1405. Central Kufic legend, in spiral from lower right: la ilah | illa Allah, | Muhammad | rasulu- | allah (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]) / Within octolobe, Naskh legend: al-sultan Mahmud khan | (rosette) duriba (rosette) | amir Timur (three annulets) Kurkan | (rosette) Shiraz (rosette) | khallada Allah mulkahu (al-sultan Mahmud khan | (rosette) struck at (rosette) | amir Timur (three annulets) Kurkan | (rosette) Shiraz (rosette) | may God perpetuate his reign); date in Naskh in margin (mostly obscured). SICA 9, 931 (same obv. die); Album 2386; Zeno 53502 (with countermark). VF, crude strike. Scarce.

From the BRN Collection.