Persia (Post-Mongol). Aq Qoyunlu. Anonymous. 1/3 Tanka (Silver, 14 mm, 1.43 g, 11 h), Kemah, circa 1437. Within a square, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); the names of the four Rashidun Caliphs in Arabic in the four surrounding panels, two of them off flan or effaced: Abūbakr / ʿUmar / ʿUthmān / ʿAlī. Rev. Within a central circle, ‘ḍarb Kimākh’ (‘Struck in Kemah’ in Arabic); in the margin, a mixed and distorted Arabic-Turkish legend, ‘al-amīrzā al-aʿẓam üçler emirza khallada Allāh’ (‘The supreme prince[s], the three princes. May Allah perpetuate [their kingdom]’). Album -. Zeno 304964. Very rare. Areas of weakness, otherwise, extremely fine.



This coin was struck during the joint rule of Jahangir, Hasan and Husayn, the three sons of ʿAli ibn Qara ʿUthman (AH 839-842 / AD 1435-1438) in Kemah.