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366, Lot: 98. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC SULTANATES, Bengal. ‘Ala’ al-Din Husain. AH 899-925 / AD 1493-1519. AV Tanka (21mm, 10.57 g, 6h). Khazana mint. Dated AH 904 (AD 1498/9). Titles of ‘Ala’ al-Din Husain; all within linear border / Continuation of titles and name of ‘Ala’ al-Din Husain and religious invocation; AH date to left; all within double linear border. CIS B757. EF, traces of deposits, struck with slightly rusty dies, three shroff marks on obverse, evidence of possibly having been placed in a bezel.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part 1, Numismatic Fine Arts/Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 470; Prince Philipp von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha Collection (J. Schulman, 22 May 1928), lot 1111.