409, Lot: 881. Estimate $150.
Sold for $90. 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 (24mm, 5.99 g, 2h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Wastan mint. Undated, circa AH 795-807 / AD 1393-1405. Within quadrilobe, 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 hexafoil, Naskh legend:
dariba |
al-sultan Mahmud khan |
khallada Allah [...] |
amir Timur Kurkan |
Wastan (struck [at] | al-sultan Mahmud Khan | may God perpetuate [...] | amir Timur Kurkan | Wastan); uncertain legend (date?) in margin. SICA 9, –; Album 2386; Zeno 59799 (
this coin). Near VF, toned.
From the BRN Collection.
