409, Lot: 844. Estimate $50.
Sold for $35. 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 Akçe (15mm, 0.97 g, 7h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Ardabil 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 hexafoil, Naskh legend:
al-sultan Mahmud khan |
amir Timur Kurkan |
Ardabil (al-sultan Mahmud Khan | amir Timur Kurkan | Ardabil [barely visible]); uncertain legend in margin (date?). SICA 9, –; Album 2383; Zeno 188876. VF, toned, typical crude strike.
From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 236 (August 2008), no. 805208.
