Specimen record
tim-032
Tim-032 Timurid Dynasty, Husayn Bayqara (AH 862-864 / AD 1459-1460; AH 865-868 / AD 1461-1464; AH 873-911 / AD 1469-1506). Silver tanka (4.76 gm, 25.28 mm), type T1, Astarabad, AH 896 = AD 1490/1. Album 2432.2. Rare.
tim-032
House record
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￥6,400
Obverse
Within a square, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, the names and titles of the four Rashidun caliphs, ‘Abūbakr al-ṣiddīq / ʿUmar al-fārūq / ʿUthmān dhū al-nūrayn / ʿAlī al-murtaḍā’ (‘Abubakr the truthful, ʿUmar the distinguisher [between right and wrong], ʿUthman the possessor of two lights, ʿAli the one with whom Allah is pleased’ in Arabic).
Reverse
Within a central knotted diamond, ‘beh/bud’ (‘prosperity’ in Persian); to the upper left of the diamond, ‘896’ (in Arabic); around, ‘ḍarb / al-sulṭān al-aʿẓam / Abu’l-Ghāzī – sulṭān / Ḥusayn / Bahādur khallada Allāh taʿālā / mulkahū wa sulṭānahū Astarābād’ (‘The supreme Sultan Abu’l-Ghazi Sultan Husayn Bahadur. May Allah, the Exalted, perpetuate his kingdom and sovereignty. Struck in Astarabad’ in Arabic).
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