AV Tanka Sultanate of Dehli (Daulatabad Mint) AH 752 (1353AD)

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  1. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    My AV Tanka Mohammad III bin Tughlaq in name of Abbasid Caliph john photos 1 049 (Medium).jpg john photos 1 050 (Medium).jpg
     
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  3. Mikey Zee

    Mikey Zee Delenda Est Carthago

    I think @Ancientnoob, among a few others. will especially LOVE that coin!!
     
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  4. Ancientnoob

    Ancientnoob Money Changer

    Oh, its liked alright.
     
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  5. THCoins

    THCoins Well-Known Member

    May I suggest a few corrections your title text:
    - This coin can't be dated 752AH, that's after Muhammad's reign. The 742 as stated on the coinflip probably is correct.
    - The mint is not Daulatabad, but Dehli (written in the middle line on the coin side in your upper pic).
    - This is not a Tanka, a Tanka is a silver coin. This is a Dinar, as also is written on the coin in the top line in your upper pic.
    Apart from this nitpicking: beautifull coin !!!
     
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  6. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Thanks for corrections, I wish I could read arabic script.
     
  7. THCoins

    THCoins Well-Known Member

    I am also not an expert in reading Arabic. If you have the Goron&Goenka catalog it will become easier to decrypt at least parts of the inscription.
    Btw. As you said this coin is in the name of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustakfi. Fun trivia fact is that this caliph had been dead for several years already. But the news had not reached Dehli yet at the time these coins were minted.
     
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  8. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    very interesting looking coin.
     
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  9. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Thats good to hear, I should have my book in about 7-10 days. By the way, are they doing a book on Mughal Empire coins as well?
    John
     
  10. THCoins

    THCoins Well-Known Member

    There is no real recent and complete standard catalog on Mughal coinage. Work is being done by others on a multi-volume standard work, but i believe that's only progressing slowly.
     
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  11. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    They will need a large page format to show life sized photos of the massive 1000 Mohur coins. These are 200mm in diameter/560 oz. gold! I think they struck 500/200/100 Mohur coins too!
     
  12. THCoins

    THCoins Well-Known Member

    Well, if you get one of those, just show it here. My monitor is large enough !
     
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  13. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    I think that both the 1000 and a 200 Mohur specimens are in collection of a Gulf Prince.....nice to have that kinda dough. Maybe same one who bought those Jahangir Zodiac AV Mohurs from recent Triton XIX Adams III collection. Coins sold for 500K @ estimate 20K!!!!
     
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