INDIA, Islamic Sultanates. Delhi. Ala ud-din Khalji, AH 695-715 / AD 1296-1316. Tanka (Silver, 28 mm, 11.00 g, 6 h), Hadrat Dehli mint, date illegible. Citing the ruler as al-Sulṭān al-Aʿẓam / ʿAlā al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Abuʾl-Muẓaffar Muḥammad Shāh / al-Sulṭān. Rev. Citing the ruler’s titulature as Sikandar al-Thānī / Yamīn al-khilāfa Nāṣir / Amīr al-Muʾminīn (‘Sikandar al-Thānī’ = ‘Second Alexander’ in Arabic); mint and date in the marginal legend. Mitchiner 2540 ff. Some deposits, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, formed since the 1970s.