Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Timur (Tamerlane). AH 771-807 / AD 1370-1405. AR Tanka (25mm, 5.70 g, 8h). Citing Chagatai khan Mahmud. Usni mint. Undated, circa AH 795-807 / AD 1393-1405. Central Kufic legend: [la ilah illa] Allah, | Muhammad | rasuluallah ([There is no deity except] God, | Muhammad | is the messenger of God); marginal Naskh legend, counterclockwise from top: [Abu Bakr] | 'Umar | ['Uthman] | ['Ali] / Within polylobe, Naskh legend: dariba | al-sultan | Mahmud Khan, | amir Timur (three pellets) Kurkan | khallada Allah | [mulkahu] Usni (struck at | sultan Mahmud Khan, | amir Timur (three pellets) Kurkan | may God perpetuate | [his reign] Usni); uncertain legend or ornaments in margin. SICA 9, –; COCBM 7, 29; Album 2386; Zeno –. Fine, toned. Rare.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 240 (January 2009), no. 809371.