409, Lot: 878. 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 Third Tanka (18mm, 2.00 g, 5h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Shuster (Shushtar) mint. Undated, circa AH 790-807 / AD 1393-1405. Central Kufic legend: la ilah | illa Allah, | Muhammad | rasuluallah (There is no deity | except God, | Muhammad | is the messenger of God); uncertain marginal Naskh legend / Within octolobe, Naskh legend: duriba | Shu- | ster (Struck in | Shu- | ster); in margin, from upper right, al-sultan Mahmud [....] (Sultan Mahmud [....]). SICA 9, -; Album 2388G; Zeno 55171 (same dies). Good VF, toned, area of flat strike. Very rare.

From the BRN Collection.