ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Timurids. Sultan 'Ali, AH 900-906 / AD 1495-1500. Tanka (Silver, 28 mm, 4.63 g), AH 903 = 1497/8. Host coin: Post-reform issue of Sultan Ahmad (AH 873-899 / AD 1469-1494). Rev. Heart-shaped countermark on the reverse: ‘903 / ʿadl ʿAlī’ (‘903, the justice of Ali’ in Arabic). Second countermark to the left, citing Zahir al-Din Babur (AH 903-937 / AD 1497-1530): ‘Ẓahīr al-Dīn Sulṭān Muḥammad Bahādur’. Host coin: Album 2452.2. Countermarks: Album 2461 and 2463. Very rare. Areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, ex Heritage Europe 54, 22 May 2017, 6435 and Album 11, 17 September 2011, 721.