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Islamic Timurid Shak Rukh Coins Identification

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I have three coins which I've been told they're from Shak Rukh, Tamerlane's son. I can't read the mints or dates. Can someone read where are they?

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The middle Dirhem seems to have the Arabic numerals (bottom of 2nd photo, right, middle) of 828.

So add the Hijri year "622(AD" and we get 1450 AD.

If so, then this postdates even Shah Rukh's son Ulugh Beg, who died in 1449 AD.

If the date is correct and the coins are "Timurid" then it would be Timur's great-grandson Abdallah Mirza who ruled from 1449 - 1451 AD.
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I wish I could help, but I know next to nothing about Islamic coins.
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The middle Dirhem seems to have the Arabic numerals (bottom of 2nd photo, right, middle) of 828.

So add the Hijri year "622(AD" and we get 1450 AD.

Because the Islamic year is shorter than the Christian year, the dates are not simply additive. AH 828 correlates more or less to AD 1425, which is well within Shahrukh's reign.

Timurid coins have become much more common in the West since the fall of Communism in central Asia, and the arrival of large numbers of Westerners in the area thanks to the Afghanistan War. The zeno.ru website currently lists 718 coins of Shahrukh; here are their listings for the various classes and subclasses of silver tankas dating from 827 to 852 issued in the name of Shahrukh. As you can see, there's a large number of types.

The top coin appears to be Type A6, "four knots on obverse", and also dated 828. Much like this one. This type is only recorded from the Samarkand mint.

The middle coin looks more like Type A1; example.

The third coin I can't see a date on, but appears to be less "ornate" than the other two; the script does not have the distinctive "serifs" the other two coins have. Perhaps it is simply a later version of Type A1.
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Thanks a lot to everybody for your messages and help!. It's great. I'll explore zeno.ru website and see if I get something else.
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