Delhi AH 654 tanka
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This specimen was lot 533 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $1,020. The catalog description[1] noted, "DELHI: Nasir al-Din Mahmud, 1246-1266, AV tanka, Delhi, AH654, clear mint & date, strong VF." 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: gold, this specimen 11.03 g.
Catalog reference: G-D135.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [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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