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 !!!
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.
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
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.
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!
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!!!!