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TIMURID: Timur, 1370-1405, AR heavy dinar or tanka (6.98g), NM, AH78x

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - World Start Price:210.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 350.00 USD
TIMURID: Timur, 1370-1405, AR heavy dinar or tanka (6.98g), NM, AH78x
SOLD
300.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2013 Jan 18 @ 15:05UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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TIMURID: Timur, 1370-1405, AR heavy dinar or tanka (6.98g), NM, AH78x, A-2374, the date is probably 789, but the final digit is only partially legible, some weakness, VF, RRR. This piece is the finest calligraphy and style, not used at Herat and other mints in that region. The style might suggest a mint somewhere in Fars, perhaps Shiraz, where fine calligraphy characterized the coins struck in the name of the Muzaffarids Shah Shuja' and Zayn al-'Abidin in the 780s and the issues in the name of Timur dated 789.