Topcat7 Posted June 23 · Member Share Posted June 23 (edited) This silver coin was represented to me as Timur (or Tamerlane) from 1370. I have no knowledge in this area at all, so my question is, "was it correctly represented or not?" Edited June 24 by Topcat7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted June 23 · Member Share Posted June 23 Nope, @Topcat7, this is totally out of my league. But I sure hope so! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailathacl Posted June 23 · Member Share Posted June 23 Always a challenge when dabbling inIslamic Dynasties coins!! Wish I could help. You might find something similar if you slog through the various Tamerlane coins on Zeno.ru however. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted June 24 · Supporter Share Posted June 24 I think your images are upside down. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topcat7 Posted June 24 · Member Author Share Posted June 24 18 minutes ago, Bailathacl said: Always a challenge when dabbling inIslamic Dynasties coins!! Wish I could help. You might find something similar if you slog through the various Tamerlane coins on Zeno.ru however. @Bailathacl I have done as you suggested and as a result I believe that this coin is not from the time of Tamerlane but from the time of his son Shah Rukh I. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topcat7 Posted June 24 · Member Author Share Posted June 24 3 minutes ago, John Conduitt said: I think your images are upside down. @John Conduitt You may well be right. I have tried checking with some reference material but I received little help there as their photographs are 'all over the shop'. It would undoubtedly help if I could read Islamic characters. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted June 24 · Supporter Share Posted June 24 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Topcat7 said: @John Conduitt You may well be right. I have tried checking with some reference material but I received little help there as their photographs are 'all over the shop'. It would undoubtedly help if I could read Islamic characters. The text on these is probably very similar from ruler to ruler. The first image has the mint on it, I think, as it says ‘struck in’ at the top. So the ruler is likely on the other side, although it might not be as it looks like the kalima. Edited June 24 by John Conduitt 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLTcoins Posted June 24 · Member Share Posted June 24 (edited) Timurids, yes, but not Timur himself. Rather it's his son Shahrukh, 1405-1447, AR tanka, Yazd mint, dated AH 830(?). Album 2405. The first image, if rotated 180°, reads: "struck at Yazd / the sultan the very great / Shahrukh Bahadur may Allah preserve / his kingdom and his sultanate / year [8]3x. The date is very weak. Only the 3 is visible but 830 is likely. The reverse is the Sunni Kalima within the central square; the names of the four Rashidun caliphs in the surrounding petals. Edited June 24 by DLTcoins 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topcat7 Posted June 24 · Member Author Share Posted June 24 (edited) @DLTcoins I have posted an image of the first coin rotated 180 degrees (thank you). Your comments are much appreciated. I think I should stay clear of here. I read some posts about Tamerlane, recently, and he wasn't a nice fellow (by all reports), so I thought I would get one of his. Maybe not. The seller will refund. Edited June 24 by Topcat7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severus Alexander Posted June 24 · Supporter Share Posted June 24 I managed to get a coin that covers both Timur (Tamerlane) and his son Shah Rukh... the undertype is a Timur tanka dated AH 800 (Shiraz mint, A2386), and the countermark is Shah Rukh: Timur himself, of course, wasn't really a 2-birds-with-one-stone kinda guy. More like 100,000 birds with a million arrows... 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ominus1 Posted June 24 · Supporter Share Posted June 24 2 hours ago, John Conduitt said: I think your images are upside down. ...ahaha.....><..don't feel too bad Topcat...i did that same thing on one of my Islamic coin pics ^^ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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