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Electronic Auction 409 8 Nov 2017
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ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Tanka (27mm, 5.82 g, 3h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Damghan mint. [Dated AH 7xx]. Central Kufic legend: duriba | Damghan (Struck in | Damghan); around which, in spiral from lower right: la ilah | illa Allah, | Muhammad | rasuluallah (There is no deity | except God, | Muhammad | is the messenger of God); marginal retrograde Naskh legend, clockwise from top: [Abu Bakr] | ['Umar] | 'Uthman | 'Ali / Central Naskh legend: al-sultan Mahmud Khan | (three pellets) amir Timur | khallada Allah mulkahu | Kurkan (Sultan Mahmud Khan | (three pellets) Amir Timur | may God perpetuate his reign | Kurkan); [date in margin]. SICA 9, –; Album 2386; Zeno 155528 (this coin). Near EF, small area of flat strike. Very rare type for mint.
From the BRN Collection.
Damghan is an ancient city dating to the Achaemenid perod, and possiby earlier. There is confusion as to whether it was the same city as the ancient Hekatompylos, or located in very close proximity to it.
From the BRN Collection.
Damghan is an ancient city dating to the Achaemenid perod, and possiby earlier. There is confusion as to whether it was the same city as the ancient Hekatompylos, or located in very close proximity to it.