Iran AH 817 tanka
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This specimen was lot 2246 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $264. The catalog description[1] noted, "TIMURID: Iskandar, 1410-1415, AR tanka, Isfahan, AH817, without any overlord, citing both the Sunni & Shi'ite Imams on the reverse (!) (the Sunni Rashidun around the kalima in the central field, the Shi'ite Imams in the scallops within the outer margin); bold strike with only one area of weakness towards the rims, XF, RR. This is one of a few types, all of them rare, that cites both the Sunni & Shi'ite Imams."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 5.65 g.
Catalog reference: A-2398.2.
- 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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