409, Lot: 880. 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 Tanka (25mm, 5.70 g, 8h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Usni mint. Undated, circa AH 795-807 / AD 1393-1405. 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] / Within polylobe, Naskh legend:
dariba |
al-sultan |
Mahmud Khan, |
amir Timur (three pellets) Kurkan |
khallada Allah |
[mulkahu] Usni (struck at | sultan Mahmud Khan, | amir Timur (three pellets) Kurkan | may God perpetuate | [his reign] Usni); uncertain legend or ornaments in margin. SICA 9, –; COCBM 7, 29; Album 2386; Zeno –. Fine, toned. Rare.
From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 240 (January 2009), no. 809371.