Jaunpur (1458-79) tanka
This specimen was lot 677 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $4,200. The catalog description[1] noted, "JAUNPUR: Husain Shah, 1458-1479, AV tanka, MM, DM, Arabic legend in Tughra style, nasir al-dunya wa'l din abu'l mujahid mahmud shah bin ibrahim shah al-sultan // Arabic legend in circle, fi zaman al-imam na'ib amir al-mu'minin abu'l-fatah khulidat khilafatahu, removed from jewelry, a lovely example with much luster, NGC graded AU details." Husain Shah Sharqi was the sixth and last sultan of the Jaunpur Sultanate, which occupied much of central Hindustan 1394-1494. Later, in the sixteenth century, the Mughals captured Jaunpur and made it the site of one of their mints.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: gold, this specimen 11.88 g.
Catalog reference: G-J1.
- 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 Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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