409, Lot: 864. Estimate $50. Sold for $30. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Akçe (16mm, 1.45 g, 7h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Mardin mint. Undated, circa AH 790-807 / AD 1388-1405. Central Kufic legend, from bottom: dariba Mardin (struck (at) Mardin); around which, Kufic legend in spiral from upper 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 | 'Umar | ['Uthman] | ['Ali] / Within octolobe, Naskh legend: al-sultan Mahmud khan | amir (three annulets) Timur | Kurkan (al-sultan Mahmud khan | amir (three annulets) Timur | Kurkan). SICA 9, –; Album 2383; Zeno –. Good VF, toned. Scarce denomination for mint.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 242 (March 2009), no. 63687.

This coin is overstruck on another issue, with part of the reverse of the undertype visible on the obverse.