Delhi AH 632 tanka

Stephen Album sale 50, lot 532

This specimen was lot 532 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $168. The catalog description^[1] noted, "DELHI: Shams al-Din Iltutmish, 1210-1235, AR tanka, (Hadrat Delhi), AH(9)3(2), struck from the land tax of Qanauj and Qiffar, VF-XF, ex SARC Auction 18 Lot 1015." The sultans of Delhi struck an extensive series of gold coins (Fr-402 thru Fr-502) starting about AH 589 (1193 AD). Most of the rulers had very short tenures but Mohammad III survived twenty-six years (AH 725-752).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 10.87 g.

Catalog reference: G-D36.

Source:

• Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

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