Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF EAST TURKESTAN: Hoja Niyaz Haji, 1933-1934, AR miscal, Kashgar, AH1352, Y-E39, L&M-775A, 8-pointed star & crescent with zarb kashgar (struck in Kashgar) between, oak wreath around / Uyghur legend, sharket turkhestan cumhuriyet islamiyesi (Islamic Republic of East Turkestan) around central circle (1) muskuk sanah 1352 within, eight rayed sun variety, faint trace of cleaning on the obverse, NGC graded About Unc Details, Surface Hairlines. The First Eastern Turkestan Republic, or Islamic Republic of East Turkestan, was a short-lived breakaway republic founded in 1933 in Sinkiang Province. It was centered on the city of Kashgar in what is today the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. With the sacking of Kashgar in 1934 by Hui warlords nominally allied with the Kuomintang government in Nanjing, the first Eastern Turkestan Republic was effectively eliminated. A similar example sold in Dix Noonan Webb Auction 123, Lot 623, for £11,000.

Estimate: 8,000- 10,000 USD