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CHAGHATAYID KHANS: Tuqa Timur, 1272-1291, AR dirham (1.89g), Khotan, ND

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:270.00 USD Estimated At:360.00 - 440.00 USD
CHAGHATAYID KHANS: Tuqa Timur, 1272-1291, AR dirham (1.89g), Khotan, ND
SOLD
680.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2012 May 18 @ 17:55UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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CHAGHATAYID KHANS: Tuqa Timur, 1272-1291, AR dirham (1.89g), Khotan, ND, A-1985T, Nyamaa, p.80 (this piece), above-average strike, Very Fine, RR, Zeno-6523. Tibetan MA ("mother") in obverse center, surrounded by two undeciphered Arabic marginal texts / al-urdu al-a'zam + city name. Dating is very tentative, but may be related to the arrival of Marco Polo at Khotan in 1274. Khotan is now a small city in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, with a population of 114,000 in 2006.