409, Lot: 875. 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 2 Dinars (17mm, 1.15 g, 6h). Citing Chagatai khan Suyurghatmish. Shiraz mint. Dated AH 789 (AD 1387/8). 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] / Central Naskh legend: duriba | Shiraz | 789 (Struck at | Shiraz | 789); marginal Naskh legend, counterclockwise from upper right: [al-]sult[an] al-'adil [Suyurghatmish] khan [yarlighi], khallada [Allah] mulkahu, amir Timur Kurkan uge manu ([The] just sult[an] [Suyurghatmish] Khan [by the order (of)], may [God] perpetuate his reign, amir Timur Kurkan, my word). SICA 9, –; COCBM 10, 18t var. (date reverted); Album 2367; Zeno 59870 var. (date reverted). Good VF, toned, some flatness. Rare.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 232 (March 2008), no. 59274.